Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 4
Seeing unseen from her hiding place, She sees them fly on the hurried chase; She sees their fierce eyes glance and dart, As they pass and peer for a track or trace, And she trembles with fear in the copse apart.
Who acts: Wiwâstè, hunters, fierce eyes, eyes · What happens: see, fly, hurry, glance, dart, pass · To what, where: hiding place, hunters, hurried chase, copse · 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 (Wiwâstè, hunters, fierce eyes, eyes), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sees | advcl |
| 2 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Seeing | xcomp |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 place | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | compound |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 8 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sees | nsubj |
| 9 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sees | obj |
| 11 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sees | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 chase | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chase | det |
| 14 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 chase | amod |
| 15 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fly | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 sees | punct |
| 17 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sees | nsubj |
| 18 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sees | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyes | amod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 glance | nsubj |
| 22 | glance | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sees | ccomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dart | cc |
| 24 | dart | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 glance | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pass | punct |
| 26 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 pass | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pass | nsubj |
| 28 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 dart | advcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 peer | cc |
| 30 | peer | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 pass | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 track | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 track | det |
| 33 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 peer | obl |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 trace | cc |
| 35 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 track | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 trembles | punct |
| 37 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 trembles | cc |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 trembles | nsubj |
| 39 | trembles | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sees | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 fear | case |
| 41 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 trembles | obl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 copse | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 copse | det |
| 44 | copse | copse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 trembles | obl |
| 45 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 39 trembles | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Wiwâstè not said here | Wiwâstè's hiding place | unseen property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | see | present | Wiwâstè | hunters = hunter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly | infinitive | hunters = hunter not said here | the hurried chase | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chase=Location | ||||
| 4 | hurry | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | see | present | Wiwâstè | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | glance | present | hunters's fierce eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | dart | present | hunters's fierce eyes not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | pass | present | eyes = eye | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | peer | present | eyes = eye not said here | for a track or trace | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | tremble | present | Wiwâstè | the copse | with fear; apart property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in copse=Location |
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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