Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 93
From rock, and thicket, and brush, and brakes, Gleamed the burning eyes of the forest snakes.
Who acts: you, brakes · What happens: brush, gleam, burn · To what, where: brakes, rock, burning eyes
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brakes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 rock | case |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brush | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thicket | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thicket | cc |
| 5 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rock | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brush | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brush | cc |
| 8 | brush | brush | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brakes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brakes | cc |
| 11 | brakes | brake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brush | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Gleamed | punct |
| 13 | Gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 brakes | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eyes | det |
| 15 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Gleamed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 snakes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 snakes | det |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 snakes | compound |
| 20 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 eyes | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | imperative | you not said here | brakes | rock and thicket | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from rock=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | gleam | participle | brakes not said here | the burning eyes of the forest snakes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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