Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 30

Oft she came to the teepee and spoke; she brought him the tongue of the bison, Sweet nuts from the hazel and oak, and flesh of the fawn and the mallard.

Who acts: Oft, begat, flesh · What happens: come, speak, bring, mallard · To what, where: teepee, tongue, Winona, hazel · 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 (Oft, begat, flesh), 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	Oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 teepee	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 teepee	det
6	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spoke	cc
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 brought	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brought	nsubj
11	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brought	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tongue	det
14	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 bison	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bison	det
17	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tongue	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nuts	punct
19	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 nuts	amod
20	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tongue	conj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 hazel	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hazel	det
23	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 oak	cc
25	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hazel	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 mallard	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mallard	cc
28	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 mallard	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 fawn	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fawn	det
31	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flesh	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mallard	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mallard	det
34	mallard	mallard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Oft			the teepee	begat nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to teepee=Initial_Location
2	speak speech: other	past	Oft not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring	past	begat	the tongue of the bison and Sweet nuts	Winona	the hazel and oak		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination tongue=Theme
4	mallard		flesh of the fawn					tree rules

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 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 30