Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 65
Through the wrinkled mask of the hoary years To the loving eyes of the lover aye The blossom of beautiful youth appears.
What happens: wrinkle, appear · To what, where: wrinkled mask
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: 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 mask | case |
| 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 | 22 appears | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 years | det |
| 7 | hoary | hoary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 years | amod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mask | nmod |
| 9 | To | to | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eyes | det |
| 11 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 years | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lover | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lover | det |
| 15 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | nmod |
| 16 | aye | aye | ADP | _ | 18 blossom | case |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blossom | det |
| 18 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lover | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 youth | case |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 youth | amod |
| 21 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blossom | nmod |
| 22 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 appears | 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 | appear | present | the wrinkled mask of the hoary years to the loving eyes of the lover aye the blossom of beautiful youth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mask=Location |
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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