Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 91
Long and dark was her flowing hair flung, like the robe of the night to the breezes; And gay as the robin she sung, or the gold-breasted lark of the meadows.
What happens: flow, be, fling, breast · To what, where: Long flowing hair
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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hair | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 dark | cc |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Long | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hair | cop |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hair | amod |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hair | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 robe | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 robe | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 robe | det |
| 12 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flung | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 robe | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 breezes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 breezes | det |
| 18 | breezes | breeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 night | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 gay | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gay | cc |
| 21 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hair | parataxis |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 robin | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 robin | det |
| 24 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gay | obl |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sung | nsubj |
| 26 | sung | sung | ADV | _ | 24 robin | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lark | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 lark | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 lark | det |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 breasted | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 gold | punct |
| 32 | breasted | breast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 lark | amod |
| 33 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gay | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 meadows | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 meadows | det |
| 36 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 lark | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | WINONA's Long flowing hair | WINONA nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fling | participle | WINONA's Long flowing hair not said here | like the robe of the night to the breezes | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | breast | participle | gold compound | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=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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