Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 54

Three times, in the night, at her bed, had the brave held the torch of the lover, [75]And thrice had she covered her head and rejected the handsome Tamdóka.

Who acts: thrice · What happens: have, hold, cover, reject · To what, where: brave held torch, head, handsome Tamdóka

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 (thrice), 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 times	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bed	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bed	nmod:poss
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 night	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 times	punct
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 torch	det
14	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 torch	amod
15	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 torch	amod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 torch	det
17	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 lover	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lover	det
20	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 torch	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 75	punct
22	[	[	PUNCT	_	23 75	punct
23	75	75	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 had	obl
24	]	]	PUNCT	_	23 75	punct
25	And	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
26	thrice	thrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	conj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 covered	nsubj
29	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	ccomp
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 covered	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rejected	cc
33	rejected	reject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 covered	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Tamdóka	det
35	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Tamdóka	amod
36	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 rejected	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		the brave held torch of the lover	time	75 obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient
2	hold	participle					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	thrice				tree rules
4	cover	past	thrice	Master's head			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Destination
5	reject	past	thrice not said here	the handsome Tamdóka			vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tamdóka=Theme

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 54

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 54