Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 18
She reached the rim of the rolling prairie-- The boundless ocean of solitude; She hid in the feathery hazel wood, For her heart was sick and her feet were weary; She fain would rest, and she needed food.
Who acts: star, heart, feet · What happens: reach, roll, hide, be, fain, rest · To what, where: rim, feathery hazel wood, food
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 (star, heart, feet), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rim | det |
| 4 | rim | rim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 prairie | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prairie | det |
| 7 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 prairie | amod |
| 8 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rim | nmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 ocean | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ocean | det |
| 11 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ocean | amod |
| 12 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prairie | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 solitude | case |
| 14 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ocean | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 hid | punct |
| 16 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hid | nsubj |
| 17 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 wood | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wood | det |
| 20 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wood | amod |
| 21 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wood | compound |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hid | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sick | punct |
| 24 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 sick | mark |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sick | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sick | cop |
| 28 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hid | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 weary | cc |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 feet | nmod:poss |
| 31 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 weary | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 weary | cop |
| 33 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sick | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 fain | punct |
| 35 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 fain | nsubj |
| 36 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 reached | parataxis |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 rest | aux |
| 38 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 fain | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 needed | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 needed | cc |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 needed | nsubj |
| 42 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | parataxis |
| 43 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 needed | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | star | the rim of the rolling prairie | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent rim=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hide | past | star | the feathery hazel wood | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | star's heart | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | star's feet | weary property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fain | infinitive | star | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | rest | would | star not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | need | past | star | food | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=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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