Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 30

She could hear the steeds Come galloping on o'er the level meads; And lowly she crouched in the waving grass, And hoped against hope that the braves would pass.

Who acts: band, steeds, braves · What happens: hear, come, gallop, crouch, hope, pass · To what, where: level meads, waving grass, hope · Speech: someone speaks here

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, steeds, braves), 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	3 hear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 steeds	det
5	steeds	steed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Come	nsubj
6	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hear	ccomp
7	galloping	gallop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Come	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 meads	case
9	o'er	o'er	ADP	_	12 meads	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meads	det
11	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 meads	compound
12	meads	mead	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 galloping	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 crouched	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 lowly	cc
15	lowly	lowly	ADV	_	17 crouched	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 crouched	nsubj
17	crouched	crouch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 grass	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grass	det
20	waving	waving	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grass	compound
21	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crouched	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hoped	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 hoped	cc
24	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 crouched	conj
25	against	against	ADP	_	26 hope	case
26	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hoped	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 pass	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 braves	det
29	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pass	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 pass	aux
31	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hope	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	could	band				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	infinitive	the steeds				tree rules
3	gallop	gerund	the steeds not said here		the level meads		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mead=Trajectory
4	crouch	past	band		the waving grass	lowly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Location
5	hope	past	band not said here			against hope	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	pass	would	the braves	hope not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hope=Trajectory

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 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 30