Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 26
She shadowed her eyes with her sun browned hand; All backward streamed on the wind her hair, And terror spread o'er her visage fair, As she bent her brow to the far off band.
Who acts: band, terror · What happens: shadow, brown, stream, spread, bend · To what, where: eyes, All, wind, brow
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 (band, terror), 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 shadowed | nsubj |
| 2 | shadowed | shadow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shadowed | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sun | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | nsubj |
| 8 | browned | brown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hand | amod |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shadowed | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 streamed | punct |
| 11 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 streamed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 13 streamed | advmod |
| 13 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 shadowed | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 wind | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 streamed | obl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hair | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 streamed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spread | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spread | cc |
| 21 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spread | nsubj |
| 22 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shadowed | parataxis |
| 23 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 25 visage | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 visage | nmod:poss |
| 25 | visage | visage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spread | obl |
| 26 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 spread | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bent | punct |
| 28 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 bent | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bent | nsubj |
| 30 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spread | conj |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 brow | nmod:poss |
| 32 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bent | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 band | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 band | det |
| 35 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 band | amod |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 far | compound:prt |
| 37 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bent | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shadowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shadow | past | band | band's eyes | with browned hand band's sun | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | brown | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | stream | participle · passive | All | the wind | band's hair obj; backward property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | spread | past | terror | o'er band's visage; fair property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bend | past | band | band's brow | to the far band result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent brow=Patient to band=Result |
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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