Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 15
The shadows paled in the hazy east, And the light of the kindling morn increased.
What happens: pale, increase, light · To what, where: shadows, hazy east, kindling morn
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shadows | det |
| 2 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 increased | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | paled | pale | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 shadows | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 east | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 east | det |
| 6 | hazy | hazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 east | amod |
| 7 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 increased | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 increased | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 light | det |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 increased | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 morn | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 morn | det |
| 14 | kindling | kindling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 morn | compound |
| 15 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 light | nmod |
| 16 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pale | participle | the shadows not said here | the hazy east | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | increase | participle · passive | the shadows | the light of the kindling morn nsubj | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | light | the kindling morn | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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