Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 63
The silken threads of the happy years They wove into beautiful robes of love That the spirits wear in the lodge above; And time from the reel of the rolling spheres His silver threads with the raven wove; But never the stain of a mother's tears Soiled the shining web of their happy years.
Who acts: silken threads, spirits, time, raven, stain · What happens: weave, wear, sphere, soil, shine · To what, where: That, beautiful robes, lodge, silver threads, shining web
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 (silken threads, spirits, time, raven), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 threads | det |
| 2 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 threads | amod |
| 3 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wove | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 years | det |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 years | amod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 threads | nmod |
| 8 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wove | nsubj |
| 9 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 robes | case |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 robes | amod |
| 12 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wove | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 love | case |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 robes | nmod |
| 15 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 wove | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spirits | det |
| 17 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wear | nsubj |
| 18 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wove | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 lodge | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lodge | det |
| 21 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wear | obl |
| 22 | above | above | ADV | _ | 21 lodge | advmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 spheres | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 time | cc |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spheres | nsubj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 reel | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 reel | det |
| 28 | reel | reel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 time | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 rolling | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rolling | det |
| 31 | rolling | rolling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reel | nmod |
| 32 | spheres | sphere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wove | conj |
| 33 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 threads | nmod:poss |
| 34 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 threads | compound |
| 35 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 spheres | obj |
| 36 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 39 wove | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 raven | det |
| 38 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wove | nsubj |
| 39 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 spheres | advcl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 Soiled | punct |
| 41 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 stain | cc |
| 42 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 44 stain | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 stain | det |
| 44 | stain | stain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 Soiled | nsubj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 tears | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 mother | det |
| 47 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 tears | nmod:poss |
| 48 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 47 mother | case |
| 49 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 stain | nmod |
| 50 | Soiled | soil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wove | conj |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 web | det |
| 52 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 53 web | amod |
| 53 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 Soiled | obj |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 years | case |
| 55 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 years | nmod:poss |
| 56 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 years | amod |
| 57 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 web | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | past | the silken threads of the happy years | That | beautiful robes of love | threads = thread nsubj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent that=Material into robe=Product | ||
| 2 | wear | present | the spirits | the lodge | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sphere | present | time from the reel of the rolling | Chaskè's silver threads | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | weave | past | the raven | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | soil | past | the stain of a mother's tears | the shining web of threads's happy years | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent web=Destination | ||||
| 6 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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