Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 19

Alone by the billowy, boundless prairies, She plucked the cones of the scarlet berries; In feathering copse and the grassy field She found the bulbs of the young Tipsânna, [43] And the sweet medó [64] that the meadows yield.

Who acts: star, meadows · What happens: pluck, find, yield · To what, where: cones, bulbs, feathering copse

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, meadows), 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	Alone	alone	ADV	_	10 plucked	advmod
2	by	by	ADP	_	7 prairies	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prairies	det
4	billowy	billowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prairies	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 billowy	punct
6	boundless	boundless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prairies	amod
7	prairies	prairie	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Alone	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Alone	punct
9	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 plucked	nsubj
10	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cones	det
12	cones	cone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 plucked	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 berries	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 berries	det
15	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 berries	compound
16	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cones	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
18	In	in	ADP	_	20 copse	case
19	feathering	feathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 copse	compound
20	copse	copse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 field	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 field	det
23	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 field	amod
24	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 copse	conj
25	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 plucked	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bulbs	det
28	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 found	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 Tipsânna	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Tipsânna	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Tipsânna	amod
32	Tipsânna	Tipsânna	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 bulbs	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 43	punct
34	[	[	PUNCT	_	35 43	punct
35	43	43	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 Tipsânna	appos
36	]	]	PUNCT	_	32 Tipsânna	punct
37	And	and	CCONJ	_	40 medó	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 medó	det
39	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 medó	amod
40	medó	medó	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Tipsânna	conj
41	[	[	PUNCT	_	42 64	punct
42	64	64	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	40 medó	appos
43	]	]	PUNCT	_	42 64	punct
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 yield	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 meadows	det
46	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 yield	nsubj
47	yield	yield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 found	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 plucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pluck	past	star	the cones of the scarlet berries		alone property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cone=Patient
2	find	past	star	the bulbs of the young Tipsânna and the sweet medó	feathering copse and the grassy field		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bulb=Topic
3	yield	present	the meadows				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 19