Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 64
When the wrinkled mask of the years they wore, And the raven hair of their youth was gray, Their love grew deeper, and more and more; For he was a lover for aye and aye, And ever her beautiful, brave Chaskè.
Who acts: wrinkled mask, raven hair, love, stain, spirits · What happens: wrinkle, wear, be, grow, love
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 (wrinkled mask, raven hair, love, stain), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 wore | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mask | det |
| 3 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 mask | amod |
| 4 | mask | mask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wore | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 years | det |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mask | nmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wore | nsubj |
| 9 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 grew | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gray | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gray | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hair | det |
| 13 | raven | raven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hair | amod |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gray | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 youth | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 youth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hair | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gray | cop |
| 19 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wore | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wore | punct |
| 21 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 love | nmod:poss |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 grew | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 more | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 more | cc |
| 27 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 grew | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 more | cc |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 more | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 lover | punct |
| 31 | For | for | ADP | _ | 35 lover | case |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 lover | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 lover | cop |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 lover | det |
| 35 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 more | obl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 aye | case |
| 37 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lover | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 aye | cc |
| 39 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 aye | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 beautiful | punct |
| 41 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 beautiful | cc |
| 42 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 44 beautiful | advmod |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 beautiful | nmod:poss |
| 44 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grew | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Chaskè | punct |
| 46 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Chaskè | amod |
| 47 | Chaskè | Chaskè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 beautiful | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | wear | past | the wrinkled mask of the years | spirits = spirit nsubj | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the raven hair of spirits's youth | gray property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | spirits's love | deep property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | stain | for a lover; for aye and aye | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | love | spirits = spirit | nom love «feeling 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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