Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 7
Then, slyly she slipped from her snug retreat, And guiding her course by Wazíya's star, [62] That shone through the shadowy forms afar, She northward hurried with silent feet; And long ere the sky was aflame in the east, She was leagues from the place of the fatal feast. '
Who acts: Wiwâstè, That, shadowy, long, sky · What happens: slip, guide, shine, form, hurry, ere · To what, where: 62, course, east, leagues, place
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 (Wiwâstè, That, shadowy, long), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 slipped | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | slyly | slyly | ADV | _ | 5 slipped | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 slipped | nsubj |
| 5 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 retreat | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 retreat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | snug | snug | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 retreat | amod |
| 9 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slipped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 guiding | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 guiding | cc |
| 12 | guiding | guide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 slipped | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 course | nmod:poss |
| 14 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 guiding | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 star | case |
| 16 | Wazíya | Wazíya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 star | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Wazíya | case |
| 18 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 guiding | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 62 | punct |
| 20 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 21 62 | punct |
| 21 | 62 | 62 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 slipped | obl |
| 22 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 21 62 | punct |
| 23 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 shone | nsubj |
| 24 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slipped | parataxis |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 forms | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shadowy | det |
| 27 | shadowy | shadowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forms | nsubj |
| 28 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 shone | ccomp |
| 29 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forms | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hurried | punct |
| 31 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 hurried | nsubj |
| 32 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 33 hurried | advmod |
| 33 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shone | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 feet | case |
| 35 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 feet | amod |
| 36 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hurried | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 long | punct |
| 38 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 long | cc |
| 39 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 ere | nsubj |
| 40 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slipped | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sky | det |
| 42 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 aflame | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 aflame | cop |
| 44 | aflame | aflame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 ere | ccomp |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 east | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 east | det |
| 47 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 aflame | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 leagues | punct |
| 49 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 leagues | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 leagues | cop |
| 51 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slipped | obl |
| 52 | from | from | ADP | _ | 54 place | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 place | det |
| 54 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 leagues | nmod |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 feast | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 feast | det |
| 57 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 feast | amod |
| 58 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 place | nmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 51 leagues | punct |
| 60 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 51 leagues | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past | Wiwâstè | 62 | then | from Wiwâstè's snug retreat; slyly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from retreat=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | guide | gerund | Wiwâstè not said here | Wiwâstè's course | by Wazíya's star | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent course=Theme by star=Destination | |||
| 3 | shine | past | That | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | form | present | the shadowy | afar property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hurry | past | Wiwâstè | with silent feet; northward property | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with foot=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | ere | past | long | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is | past | the sky | the east | aflame property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | is a | past | Wiwâstè | leagues | the place of the fatal feast | tree rules |
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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