Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 16

The pale-faced stars fled one by one, And hid in the vast from the rising sun. From woods and waters and welkin soon Fled the hovering mists of the vanished moon.

Who acts: faced stars · What happens: flee, hide, rise, vanish, mist · To what, where: one, vast, hovering mists, vanished moon

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: who acts (faced stars), 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	5 stars	det
2	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 faced	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 pale	punct
4	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stars	amod
5	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fled	nsubj
6	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 fled	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 one	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hid	punct
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 hid	cc
12	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fled	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 vast	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 vast	det
15	vast	vast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hid	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 sun.	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun.	det
18	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sun.	amod
19	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hid	obl
20	From	from	ADP	_	21 woods	case
21	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sun.	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 waters	cc
23	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 woods	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 welkin	cc
25	welkin	welkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 woods	conj
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 Fled	advmod
27	Fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hid	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mists	det
29	hovering	hovering	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mists	amod
30	mists	mist	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Fled	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 moon	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 moon	det
33	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 moon	amod
34	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mists	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flee	past	the faced stars	one		by one	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Initial_Location
2	hide	past	the faced stars not said here		the vast	from the rising sun. from woods and waters and welkin	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from sun.=Beneficiary
3	rise	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	flee	past	the faced stars not said here	the hovering mists of the vanished moon		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mist=Initial_Location
5	vanish	participle					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	mist			the vanished moon			nom mist «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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 16