Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 52

She lacked not admirers; the light of the lover oft burned in her teepee-- At her couch in the midst of the night, --but she never extinguished the flambeau.

Who acts: Master · What happens: not lack, burn, not extinguish, light · To what, where: admirers, lover, teepee, flambeau

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 (Master), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lacked	nsubj
2	lacked	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 lacked	advmod
4	admirers	admirer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lacked	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 light	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lacked	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 lover	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lover	det
10	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	nmod
11	oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lover	amod
12	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 lover	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 teepee	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 teepee	nmod:poss
15	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burned	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 couch	punct
17	At	at	ADP	_	19 couch	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 couch	nmod:poss
19	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 midst	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 midst	det
22	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 couch	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 night	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 night	det
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 midst	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 light	punct
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 extinguished	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 extinguished	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 extinguished	nsubj
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 extinguished	advmod
31	extinguished	extinguish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lacked	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 flambeau	det
33	flambeau	flambeau	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 extinguished	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lacked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not lack	past	Master	admirers		the light of the lover and Master's couch in the midst of the night obj	tree rules
2	burn	participle		the lover not said here	Master's teepee		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in teepee=Location
3	not extinguish	past	Master	the flambeau			vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flambeau=Patient
4	light			the lover			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 52