Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 43

The Autumn was past and the snow lay drifted and deep on the prairies; From his teepee of ice came the foe --came the storm-breathing god of the winter.

Who acts: Autumn, breathing god · What happens: be, drift, come, breathe · To what, where: snow, foe, teepee

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 (Autumn, breathing god), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Autumn	det
2	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 past	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 past	cop
4	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drifted	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drifted	nsubj:pass
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drifted	aux:pass
9	drifted	drift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 past	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 deep	cc
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 drifted	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 prairies	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prairies	det
14	prairies	prairie	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 deep	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
16	From	from	ADP	_	18 teepee	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 teepee	nmod:poss
18	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 ice	case
20	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 teepee	nmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 past	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 foe	det
23	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obj
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 god	det
27	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 breathing	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 storm	punct
29	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 god	amod
30	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 winter	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 winter	det
33	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 god	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 past	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Autumn			past property	tree rules
2	drift	past · passive		the snow			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent
3	come	past		the foe	name's teepee of ice		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foe=Theme
4	come	past	the breathing god of the winter				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	breathe	gerund				storm compound	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: 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 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 43