Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 14

His tongue could they not understand, but his torn hands all shriveled with famine, He stretched to the hunters and said: "He feedeth his chosen with manna; And ye are the angels of God, sent to save me from death in the desert."

Who acts: tongue, ye · What happens: not understand, tear, shrivel, stretch, say, feed · To what, where: torn hands, hunters, Unktómee, angels, tongue, death · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tongue, ye), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tongue	nmod:poss
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understand	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 understand	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 understand	advmod
6	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shriveled	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 shriveled	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
10	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hands	amod
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shriveled	nsubj:pass
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 shriveled	advmod
13	shriveled	shrivel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 understand	ccomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 famine	case
15	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shriveled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stretched	punct
17	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stretched	nsubj
18	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shriveled	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 hunters	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hunters	det
21	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stretched	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stretched	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 feedeth	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 feedeth	punct
26	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 feedeth	nsubj
27	feedeth	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 feedeth	obj
29	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 his	acl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 manna	case
31	manna	manna	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chosen	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 angels	punct
33	And	and	CCONJ	_	37 angels	cc
34	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 angels	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 angels	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 angels	det
37	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 understand	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 God	case
39	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 angels	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sent	punct
41	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 angels	acl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 save	mark
43	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 sent	advcl
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 save	obj
45	from	from	ADP	_	46 death	case
46	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 save	obl
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 desert	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 desert	det
49	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 save	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not understand	could	Unktómee's tongue			braves = brave nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tear	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shrivel	participle · passive		Unktómee's torn hands		with famine; all property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with famine=Instrument
4	stretch	past	tongue		the hunters		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hunter=Location
5	say speech: assert	past	tongue not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	feed in a quote	present	tongue	Unktómee			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent his=Recipient
7	choose in a quote	participle				with manna	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	is a in a quote	present	ye	the angels		of God	tree rules
9	send in a quote	participle		the angels not said here			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	save in a quote	to-infinitive		tongue	death	in the desert	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from death=Source

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 14

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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 14