Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 57
Aye, love is tested by stress and trial Since the finger of time on the endless dial Began its rounds, and the orbs to move In the boundless vast, and the sunbeams clove The chaos; but only by fate's denial Are fathomed the fathomless depths of love.
Who acts: stress, orbs, sunbeams, fate · What happens: test, move, clove, fathom, deny · To what, where: love, endless dial, boundless vast, chaos, denial
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 (stress, orbs, sunbeams, fate), 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 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 5 tested | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aye | punct |
| 3 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tested | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tested | aux:pass |
| 5 | tested | test | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 stress | case |
| 7 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tested | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 trial | cc |
| 9 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stress | conj |
| 10 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 12 finger | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 finger | det |
| 12 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tested | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finger | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 dial | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dial | det |
| 17 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dial | amod |
| 18 | dial | dial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tested | obl |
| 19 | Began | Began | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 dial | appos |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 rounds | nmod:poss |
| 21 | rounds | round | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dial | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 move | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 move | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 orbs | det |
| 25 | orbs | orb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 move | nsubj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 move | mark |
| 27 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tested | parataxis |
| 28 | In | in | ADP | _ | 31 vast | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 vast | det |
| 30 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 vast | amod |
| 31 | vast | vast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 move | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 clove | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 clove | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sunbeams | det |
| 35 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 clove | nsubj |
| 36 | clove | clove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 move | conj |
| 37 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 chaos | det |
| 38 | chaos | chaos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 clove | obj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 fathomed | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 fathomed | cc |
| 41 | only | only | ADV | _ | 45 denial | advmod |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 denial | case |
| 43 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 denial | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 fate | case |
| 45 | denial | denial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fathomed | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 fathomed | aux:pass |
| 47 | fathomed | fathom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tested | conj |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 depths | det |
| 49 | fathomless | fathomless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 depths | amod |
| 50 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 fathomed | obj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 love | case |
| 52 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 depths | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | present · passive | stress and trial | love | the endless dial and love's rounds | since the finger of time | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive | the orbs | the boundless vast | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in vast=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | clove | present | the sunbeams | the chaos | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fathom | present · passive | fate's denial | the fathomless depths of love obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | deny | fate | nom denial «communication transitive»: poss=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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