Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 38
She halts, and the hunters come riding on; But the horrible fear from her heart is gone, For it is not the shout of the dreaded foe; 'Tis the welcome shout of her native land!
Who acts: Wiwâstè, hunters, horrible fear, fear, Tis · What happens: halt, come, ride on, be, not be, dread
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 (Wiwâstè, hunters, horrible fear, fear), 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 halts | nsubj |
| 2 | halts | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 come | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hunters | det |
| 6 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 halts | conj |
| 8 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 come | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 riding | compound:prt |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 gone | punct |
| 11 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 gone | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fear | det |
| 13 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fear | amod |
| 14 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fear | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 gone | cop |
| 19 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 halts | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shout | punct |
| 21 | For | for | ADP | _ | 26 shout | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 shout | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 shout | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 shout | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shout | det |
| 26 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gone | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 foe | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 foe | det |
| 29 | dreaded | dread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 foe | amod |
| 30 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shout | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 shout | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 Tis | punct |
| 33 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 shout | nsubj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 shout | det |
| 35 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 shout | amod |
| 36 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 halts | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 land | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 land | nmod:poss |
| 39 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 land | amod |
| 40 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shout | nmod |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 halts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | halt | present | Wiwâstè | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come | present | the hunters | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ride on | gerund | the hunters not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the horrible fear from Wiwâstè's heart | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is | present | fear | for the shout; of the dreaded foe | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | dread | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | shout speech: express | Tis | of Wiwâstè's native land | tree rules |
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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