Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 32

And oft at his feet on the mat, deftly braiding the flags and the rushes, Till the sun sought his teepee she sat, enchanted with what he related Of the white winged ships on the sea and the teepees far over the ocean, Of the love and the sweet charity of the Christ and the beautiful Virgin.

Who acts: sun, teepee, Winona · What happens: braid, seek, sit, enchant, relate, wing · To what, where: flags, teepee, ships, sea

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 (sun, teepee, Winona), 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	_	2 oft	cc
2	oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 oft	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 mat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mat	det
8	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feet	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 braiding	punct
10	deftly	deftly	ADV	_	11 braiding	advmod
11	braiding	braid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 oft	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flags	det
13	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 braiding	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rushes	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rushes	det
16	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 flags	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sought	punct
18	Till	till	SCONJ	_	21 sought	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sought	nsubj
21	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 braiding	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 teepee	nmod:poss
23	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 winged	nsubj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sat	nsubj
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 teepee	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 enchanted	punct
27	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 teepee	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 what	case
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 enchanted	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 related	nsubj
31	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 what	acl:relcl
32	Of	of	ADP	_	34 white	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 white	det
34	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 related	obl
35	winged	wing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sought	parataxis
36	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 winged	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 sea	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sea	det
39	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 winged	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 teepees	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 teepees	det
42	teepees	teepee	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 sea	conj
43	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 ocean	advmod
44	over	over	ADP	_	46 ocean	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 ocean	det
46	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 winged	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 love	punct
48	Of	of	ADP	_	50 love	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 love	det
50	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 winged	parataxis
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 charity	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 charity	det
53	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 charity	amod
54	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 love	conj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 Christ	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 Christ	det
57	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 charity	nmod
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 Virgin	cc
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 Virgin	det
60	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 Virgin	amod
61	Virgin	virgin	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 Christ	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 oft	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	braid	gerund		the flags and the rushes		deftly property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient
2	seek	past	the sun				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	teepee	Winona's teepee not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location teepee=Theme
4	enchant	participle		Winona's teepee not said here		with Winona's teepee	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	relate	past	Winona			of the white	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
6	wing	past	Winona's teepee	ships	the sea and the teepees	over the ocean; the love and the sweet charity of the Christ and the beautiful Virgin parataxis	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ship=Theme over ocean=Trajectory

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 32

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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 32