Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 68
And the swarthy herds of bison feed On the sun-lit slope and the waving mead; The dappled fawns from their coverts peep, And countless flocks on the waters sleep; And the silent years with their fingers trace No furrows for aye on the hunter's face.
Who acts: swarthy herds, dappled fawns, countless flocks, silent years · What happens: feed, lit, wave, peep, sleep, trace · To what, where: furrows, face
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 (swarthy herds, dappled fawns, countless flocks, silent years), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 herds | det |
| 3 | swarthy | swarthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 herds | amod |
| 4 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 feed | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bison | case |
| 6 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 herds | nmod |
| 7 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | On | on | ADP | _ | 13 slope | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 slope | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lit | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sun | punct |
| 12 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 slope | amod |
| 13 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mead | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mead | det |
| 16 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 mead | amod |
| 17 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slope | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 peep | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fawns | det |
| 20 | dappled | dappled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fawns | amod |
| 21 | fawns | fawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 peep | nsubj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 coverts | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 coverts | nmod:poss |
| 24 | coverts | covert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fawns | nmod |
| 25 | peep | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 feed | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sleep | punct |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sleep | cc |
| 28 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 flocks | amod |
| 29 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 sleep | nsubj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 waters | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 waters | det |
| 32 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 flocks | nmod |
| 33 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 peep | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 trace | punct |
| 35 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 trace | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 years | det |
| 37 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 years | amod |
| 38 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 trace | nsubj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 fingers | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 41 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 years | nmod |
| 42 | trace | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 feed | conj |
| 43 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 furrows | det |
| 44 | furrows | furrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 trace | obj |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 aye | case |
| 46 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 trace | obl |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 face | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 hunter | det |
| 49 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 face | nmod:poss |
| 50 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 49 hunter | case |
| 51 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 trace | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 feed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | the swarthy herds of bison | on the lit slope and the waving mead | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on slope=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lit | participle | sun compound | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wave | gerund | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | peep | present | the dappled fawns from fawns's coverts | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sleep | present | countless flocks on the waters | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | trace | present | the silent years with fawns's fingers | no furrows | the hunter's face | for aye | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent furrow=Theme on face=Destination |
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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