Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 92

Like the wings of the wind were her feet, and as sure as the feet of Ta-tó-ka; [b] And oft like an antelope fleet o'er the hills and the prairies she bounded, Lightly laughing in sport as she ran, and looking back over her shoulder, At the fleet footed maiden or man, that vainly her flying steps followed.

Who acts: WINONA, fleet, that · What happens: be, bound, laugh, run, look back, foot · To what, where: feet, antelope fleet, sport

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 (WINONA, fleet, that), 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	Like	like	ADP	_	3 wings	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wings	det
3	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 feet	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wings	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 feet	cop
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feet	nmod:poss
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sure	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sure	cc
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 sure	advmod
13	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feet	acl:relcl
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 feet	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 feet	det
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sure	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	22 ka	case
18	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 ka	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Ta	punct
20	tó	tó	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ka	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 tó	punct
22	ka	ka	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 feet	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 oft	punct
24	[	[	PUNCT	_	25 b	punct
25	b	b	NUM	_	28 oft	discourse
26	]	]	PUNCT	_	25 b	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 oft	cc
28	oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feet	conj
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 fleet	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fleet	det
31	antelope	antelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fleet	compound
32	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 oft	obl
33	o'er	o'er	ADP	_	35 hills	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hills	det
35	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fleet	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 prairies	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 prairies	det
38	prairies	prairie	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 hills	conj
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 bounded	nsubj
40	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fleet	acl:relcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 laughing	punct
42	Lightly	lightly	ADV	_	43 laughing	advmod
43	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 oft	advcl
44	in	in	ADV	_	45 sport	advmod
45	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 laughing	obl
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 ran	mark
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 ran	nsubj
48	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 laughing	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 looking	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 looking	cc
51	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 ran	advcl
52	back	back	ADV	_	51 looking	advmod
53	over	over	ADP	_	55 shoulder	case
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 shoulder	nmod:poss
55	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 looking	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 footed	punct
57	At	at	SCONJ	_	60 footed	mark
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 fleet	det
59	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 footed	nsubj
60	footed	foot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 looking	parataxis
61	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 footed	xcomp
62	or	or	CCONJ	_	63 man	cc
63	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 maiden	conj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 followed	punct
65	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	70 followed	nsubj
66	vainly	vainly	ADV	_	70 followed	advmod
67	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 steps	nmod:poss
68	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	69 steps	amod
69	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 followed	nsubj
70	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 footed	conj
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 feet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		WINONA's feet	like the wings of the wind; WINONA nmod:poss	tree rules
2	be				like a antelope fleet o'er the hills and the prairies; b discourse	tree rules
3	bound	past	WINONA	a antelope fleet o'er the hills and the prairies not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fleet=Theme
4	laugh	gerund		sport	lightly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	run	past	WINONA			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	look back	gerund	WINONA not said here		over WINONA's shoulder	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Theme
7	foot	past	the fleet		maiden property	tree rules
8	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	follow	past	that		WINONA's flying steps nsubj; vainly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	step		WINONA			nom step «act transitive»: 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 92

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 92