Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 78
[86] Far rolling away to the north, and the south, lay the emerald prairies, Alternate with woodlands and lakes, and above them the blue vast of ether.
What happens: roll away, lay · To what, where: north, emerald prairies, 86
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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 86 | punct |
| 2 | 86 | 86 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 rolling | punct |
| 4 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 rolling | advmod |
| 5 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 86 | advcl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 rolling | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 north | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 north | det |
| 9 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rolling | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 south | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 south | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 south | det |
| 13 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 86 | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
| 15 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 86 | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prairies | det |
| 17 | emerald | emerald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prairies | compound |
| 18 | prairies | prairie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lay | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Alternate | punct |
| 20 | Alternate | alternate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 prairies | amod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 woodlands | case |
| 22 | woodlands | woodland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Alternate | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lakes | cc |
| 24 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 woodlands | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 vast | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 vast | cc |
| 27 | above | above | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 vast | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 vast | det |
| 30 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 vast | amod |
| 31 | vast | vast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 ether | case |
| 33 | ether | ether | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 vast | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 86 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll away | gerund | the north | away, far property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to north=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | the emerald prairies | the blue vast above lakes of ether obl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prairie=Result |
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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