Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 6

Weary the hours; but the sun at last Went down to his lodge in the west, and fast The wings of the spirits of night were spread O'er the darkling woods and Wiwâstè's head.

Who acts: you · What happens: weary, fast, spread · To what, where: sun, last Went, wings

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 (you), 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	Weary	weary	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hours	det
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Weary	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 sun	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 sun	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Weary	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 Went	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Went	amod
10	Went	Went	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Weary	obl
11	down	down	ADV	_	14 lodge	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 lodge	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 lodge	nmod:poss
14	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Weary	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 west	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 west	det
17	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lodge	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fast	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fast	cc
20	fast	fast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Weary	conj
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wings	det
22	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 spread	nsubj:pass
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 spirits	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 spirits	det
25	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wings	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 night	case
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spirits	nmod
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 spread	aux:pass
29	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 fast	ccomp
30	O'er	o'er	ADP	_	33 woods	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 woods	det
32	darkling	darkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 woods	compound
33	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 spread	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 head	cc
35	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 head	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Wiwâstè	case
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 woods	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Weary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weary	imperative	you not said here	the sun	last Went	hour	to Went's lodge in the west	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	fast	infinitive	you not said here					tree rules
3	spread	past · passive		the wings of the spirits of night			o'er the darkling woods and Wiwâstè's head	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 6