Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 77

Two hundred white Winters and more have fled from the face of the Summer, Since here on the oak shaded shore of the dark winding swift Mississippi, Where his foaming floods tumble and roar, on the falls and white rolling rapids, In the fair, fabled center of Earth, sat the Indian town of Ka-thá-ga.

Who acts: hundred white Winters, foaming floods, sound · What happens: flee, shade, tumble, roar, roll, fable · To what, where: face, falls, center, Indian town

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 (hundred white Winters, foaming floods, sound), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Winters	nummod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Winters	amod
4	Winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fled	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 more	cc
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 Winters	conj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fled	aux
8	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 face	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 face	det
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fled	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Summer	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Summer	det
14	Summer	Summer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 face	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 oak	punct
16	Since	since	ADP	_	17 here	case
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 oak	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 oak	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 oak	det
20	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fled	conj
21	shaded	shade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 shore	amod
22	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 oak	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	28 Mississippi	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Mississippi	det
25	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 swift	amod
26	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swift	compound
27	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Mississippi	compound
28	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 shore	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tumble	punct
30	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 tumble	advmod
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 floods	nmod:poss
32	foaming	foaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 floods	compound
33	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 tumble	nsubj
34	tumble	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 oak	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 roar	cc
36	roar	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 tumble	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 falls	punct
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 falls	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 falls	det
40	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 roar	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rapids	cc
42	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 rapids	amod
43	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 rapids	amod
44	rapids	rapid	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 falls	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 fair	punct
46	In	in	ADP	_	48 fair	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 fair	det
48	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 falls	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 fabled	punct
50	fabled	fable	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 falls	parataxis
51	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 fabled	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 Earth	case
53	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 center	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 sat	punct
55	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 fabled	conj
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 town	det
57	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 town	amod
58	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 sat	obj
59	of	of	ADP	_	62 thá	case
60	Ka	Ka	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 thá	compound
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 Ka	punct
62	thá	thá	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 town	nmod
63	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 ga	punct
64	ga	ga	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 thá	appos
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flee	present · perfect	hundred white Winters		the face of the Summer	the oak and shaded shore of the swift Mississippi conj	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from face=Initial_Location
2	shade	participle					vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	tumble	present	sound's foaming floods				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	roar	present	sound's foaming floods not said here	the falls and white rolling rapids and the fair			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fall=Theme
5	roll	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fable	past		center of Earth			tree rules
7	sit	past		the Indian town of Ka thá			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=Theme
8	flood		sound				nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 77

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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 77