Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 25
And lo--from afar o'er the level plain-- As far as the sails of a ship at sea May be seen as they lift from the rolling main-- A band of warriors rode rapidly.
Who acts: sails, band · What happens: see, lift, roll, ride · To what, where: May
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 (sails, band), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 afar | cc |
| 2 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 5 afar | discourse |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 lo | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 afar | case |
| 5 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 8 level | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 level | det |
| 8 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plain | obl |
| 9 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 afar | ccomp |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 far | punct |
| 11 | As | as | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 seen | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 sails | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sails | det |
| 15 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 far | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ship | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ship | det |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sails | nmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 far | obl |
| 21 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seen | aux:pass |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 afar | advcl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 lift | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lift | nsubj |
| 26 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | advcl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 main | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 main | det |
| 29 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 main | amod |
| 30 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lift | advcl |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 main | punct |
| 32 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 band | det |
| 33 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rode | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 warriors | case |
| 35 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 band | nmod |
| 36 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 main | parataxis |
| 37 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 36 rode | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive · passive | May | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lift | present | sails = sail | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | ride | past | a band of warriors | rapidly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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