Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 23

The Bloody River [40] she reached at last, And boldly walked in the light of day, On the level plain of the valley vast; Nor thought of the terrible Chippeway.

Who acts: Bloody River, Nor · What happens: reach, walk, think, light · To what, where: last, light, day

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 (Bloody River, Nor), 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 River	det
2	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 River	amod
3	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 reached	nsubj
4	[	[	PUNCT	_	5 40	punct
5	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 River	appos
6	]	]	PUNCT	_	5 40	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reached	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 walked	punct
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 walked	cc
13	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 walked	advmod
14	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reached	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 light	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 light	det
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walked	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 day	case
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 light	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 plain	punct
21	On	on	ADP	_	24 plain	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 plain	det
23	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plain	compound
24	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walked	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 vast	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 vast	det
27	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 vast	compound
28	vast	vast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plain	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 thought	punct
30	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 thought	nsubj
31	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reached	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 Chippeway	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Chippeway	det
34	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Chippeway	amod
35	Chippeway	Chippeway	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 thought	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the Bloody River		last	star nsubj	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	past	the Bloody River not said here		the light of day	on the level plain of the valley vast; boldly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Trajectory
3	think speech: other	past	Nor			of the terrible Chippeway	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	light			day			nom light «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 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 23