Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 12

Half-dead in a dismal morass, as they followed the red-deer they found him, In the midst of the mire and the grass, and mumbling "_Te Deum laudamus_." "

Who acts: Dakotas · What happens: follow, find, mumble · To what, where: red deer, midst, Half, Te laudamus

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dakotas), 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	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 dead	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 morass	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 morass	det
6	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 morass	amod
7	morass	morass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dead	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 followed	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 followed	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 followed	nsubj
11	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 deer	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 deer	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 red	punct
15	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 followed	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 deer	acl:relcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 midst	punct
20	In	in	ADP	_	22 midst	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 midst	det
22	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 followed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 mire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mire	det
25	mire	mire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 midst	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 grass	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grass	det
28	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mire	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mumbling	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mumbling	cc
31	mumbling	mumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dead	conj
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 laudamus	punct
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 laudamus	punct
34	Te	Te	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 laudamus	compound
35	Deum	Deum	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Te	flat
36	laudamus	laudamus	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mumbling	obj
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 laudamus	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 laudamus	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 laudamus	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 laudamus	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	follow	past	Dakotas = dakota	the red deer	the midst of the mire and the grass	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent deer=Theme in midst=Trajectory
2	find	past	Dakotas = dakota	Half		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	mumble speech: other	gerund		Te laudamus		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laudamus=Topic

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 3, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 12