Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 2
Her swift feet flew To the somber shades of the tangled thicket.
Who acts: swift feet · What happens: fly, tangle, shade · To what, where: tangled thicket
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 (swift 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feet | compound |
| 3 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | To | to | ADP | _ | 8 shades | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shades | det |
| 7 | somber | somber | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shades | amod |
| 8 | shades | shade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thicket | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thicket | det |
| 11 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 thicket | amod |
| 12 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shades | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Wiwâstè's swift feet | to the somber shades of the tangled thicket result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shade=Result | ||||
| 2 | tangle | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | shade | the tangled thicket | nom shade «state 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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