Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 25

And often they bade him to pray this marvelous spirit to answer, And tell where the sly Chippeway might be ambushed and slain in his forests.

Who acts: hunters · What happens: bade, pray, answer, tell, ambush, slay · To what, where: Father, marvelous spirit, sly Chippeway, forests · 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 (hunters), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 bade	cc
2	often	often	ADV	_	4 bade	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	to	to	PART	_	7 pray	mark
7	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bade	xcomp
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 spirit	det
9	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spirit	amod
10	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pray	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 answer	mark
12	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pray	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bade	conj
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 ambushed	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Chippeway	det
18	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Chippeway	amod
19	Chippeway	Chippeway	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 ambushed	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 ambushed	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 ambushed	aux:pass
22	ambushed	ambush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 tell	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 slain	cc
24	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 ambushed	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 forests	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 forests	nmod:poss
27	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 slain	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bade	past	hunters = hunter	Father		often property	tree rules
2	pray	to-infinitive	hunters = hunter not said here	this marvelous spirit			tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	hunters = hunter not said here				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	hunters = hunter not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	ambush	might · passive		the sly Chippeway			vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	slay	participle			Father's forests		vn murder-42.1 «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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 25