Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 21

But the braves bade him look to the East --to the silvery lodge of Han-nán-na; [b] And to dance with the chiefs at the feast --at the feast of the Giant Heyó-ka.

Who acts: braves · What happens: bade, look, dance · To what, where: Wakán, feast

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 (braves), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 bade	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 braves	det
3	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bade	nsubj
4	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bade	obj
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bade	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 East	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 East	det
9	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 lodge	punct
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 lodge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lodge	det
13	silvery	silvery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lodge	amod
14	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	20 na	case
16	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 na	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Han	punct
18	nán	nán	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 na	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 nán	punct
20	na	na	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lodge	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 dance	punct
22	[	[	PUNCT	_	23 b	punct
23	b	b	NUM	_	27 dance	discourse
24	]	]	PUNCT	_	23 b	punct
25	And	and	CCONJ	_	27 dance	cc
26	to	to	PART	_	27 dance	mark
27	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bade	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 chiefs	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 chiefs	det
30	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 dance	obl
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 feast	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 feast	det
33	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dance	obl
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 feast	punct
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 feast	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 feast	det
37	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dance	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 Heyó	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Heyó	det
40	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Heyó	amod
41	Heyó	Heyó	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 feast	appos
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 ka	punct
43	ka	ka	X	Foreign=Yes	41 Heyó	dep
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bade	past	the braves	Wakán			tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the braves not said here			to the East; to the silvery lodge of Han nán na	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to east=Theme
3	dance	to-infinitive	the braves not said here		the feast	with the chiefs; at the feast; b discourse	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at feast=Location

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 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 21