Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 58

Man is the rugged and wrinkled oak, And woman the trusting and tender vine-- That clasps and climbs till its arms entwine The brawny arms of the sturdy stoke.

Who acts: Man, woman, That, arms, brawny arms · What happens: rug, wrinkle, be, trust, clasp, climb · To what, where: rugged oak, brawny arms

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 (Man, woman, That, arms), 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	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 oak	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 oak	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oak	det
4	rugged	rug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 oak	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wrinkled	cc
6	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rugged	conj
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 woman	punct
9	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 woman	cc
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 oak	appos
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trusting	det
12	trusting	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 woman	acl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 vine	cc
14	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 vine	amod
15	vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 oak	conj
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 clasps	punct
17	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 clasps	nsubj
18	clasps	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 oak	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 climbs	cc
20	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 clasps	conj
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 entwine	mark
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 arms	nmod:poss
23	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 entwine	nsubj
24	entwine	entwine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 climbs	advcl
25	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 arms	det
26	brawny	brawny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 arms	amod
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 entwine	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 sturdy	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sturdy	det
30	sturdy	sturdy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stoke	obl
31	stoke	stoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 arms	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 oak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rug	participle				tree rules
2	wrinkle	participle				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	Man	the rugged oak and tender vine	woman appos; tender vine conj	tree rules
4	trust	gerund	woman not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	clasp	present	That			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	climb	present	That not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	entwine	present	vine's arms	the brawny arms		vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
8	stoke	infinitive	the brawny arms not said here		of the sturdy	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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 58