Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 17

The young robins chirped in their feathery beds, The loon's song shrilled like a winding horn, And the green hills lifted their dewy heads To greet the god of the rising morn.

Who acts: young robins, green hills, loon · What happens: chirp, shrill, wind, lift, greet, rise · To what, where: song, feathery beds, dewy heads, god

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 (young robins, green hills, loon), 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	3 robins	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 robins	amod
3	robins	robin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chirped	nsubj
4	chirped	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 beds	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 beds	nmod:poss
7	feathery	feathery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beds	amod
8	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chirped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 song	punct
10	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 loon	det
11	loon	loon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 song	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 loon	case
13	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chirped	obl
14	shrilled	shrill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 song	acl
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 horn	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 horn	det
17	winding	wind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 horn	amod
18	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shrilled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lifted	punct
20	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 lifted	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hills	det
22	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hills	amod
23	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lifted	nsubj
24	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chirped	conj
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heads	nmod:poss
26	dewy	dewy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 heads	amod
27	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lifted	obj
28	To	to	PART	_	29 greet	mark
29	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 lifted	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 god	det
31	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 greet	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 morn	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 morn	det
34	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 morn	amod
35	morn	morn	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 god	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chirped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	chirp	past	the young robins	the loon's song		robins's feathery beds		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shrill	participle		the loon's song not said here			like a winding horn	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wind	gerund						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	lift	past	the green hills	robins's dewy heads				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	the green hills not said here		the god of the rising morn			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
6	rise	gerund						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sing		the loon					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 17