Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 94

[57] From brake, and thicket, and brush, and stone, The bow string hummed and the arrow hissed, And the lance of a crouching Ojibway shone, Or the scalp-knife gleamed in a swarthy fist.

Who acts: thicket, stone, arrow, Ojibway · What happens: brush, hum, hiss, crouch, shine, gleam · To what, where: scalp knife, swarthy fist, 57

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 (thicket, stone, arrow, Ojibway), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 57	punct
2	57	57	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 57	punct
4	From	from	ADP	_	5 brake	case
5	brake	brake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 57	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brush	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brush	cc
8	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brush	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brush	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brush	cc
11	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 57	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hummed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hummed	cc
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hummed	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 string	punct
16	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 string	det
17	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 string	compound
18	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stone	conj
19	hummed	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brush	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hissed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 arrow	det
22	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hissed	nsubj
23	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hummed	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lance	punct
25	And	and	CCONJ	_	27 lance	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lance	det
27	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brush	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 a	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 lance	nmod
30	crouching	crouch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 a	acl
31	Ojibway	Ojibway	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 shone	nsubj
32	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 crouching	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 knife	punct
34	Or	or	CCONJ	_	38 knife	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 knife	det
36	scalp	scalp	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 knife	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 scalp	punct
38	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shone	obl
39	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 knife	acl
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 fist	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 fist	det
42	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fist	amod
43	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 gleamed	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 57	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	brush	infinitive	thicket			the lance of a parataxis	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hum	past	stone and the bow string				vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
3	hiss	past	the arrow				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	crouch	gerund					tree rules
5	shine	past	Ojibway	the scalp knife			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
6	gleam	participle		the scalp knife not said here	a swarthy fist		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fist=Location

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 94

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 94