Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 59
[67] The dimpled babes are the flowers divine That the blessing of God on the vine and oak With their cooing and blossoming lips invoke.
Who acts: 67 flowers, blessing · What happens: dimple, be, divine, blossom, invoke, bless · To what, where: 67 flowers, That, God, vine
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 (67 flowers, blessing), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 67 | punct |
| 2 | 67 | 67 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 flowers | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 67 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 babes | det |
| 5 | dimpled | dimple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 babes | amod |
| 6 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 67 | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 flowers | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flowers | det |
| 9 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 divine | nsubj |
| 10 | divine | divine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 divine | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 blessing | det |
| 13 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 divine | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 God | case |
| 15 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 blessing | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 vine | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 vine | det |
| 18 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blessing | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 oak | cc |
| 20 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 vine | conj |
| 21 | With | with | ADP | _ | 23 cooing | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cooing | nmod:poss |
| 23 | cooing | cooing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 vine | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lips | cc |
| 25 | blossoming | blossom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 lips | amod |
| 26 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cooing | conj |
| 27 | invoke | invoke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 blessing | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 divine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dimple | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the 67 flowers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | divine | present | the 67 flowers | That | the blessing of God obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | blossom | gerund | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | invoke | infinitive | the blessing of God not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | bless | God | the vine with oak's cooing and blossoming lips and oak | nom blessing «act transitive»: of=patient on=place |
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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