Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 102

In red swan-down he made it for me; In red swan-down he made it for me; He of the water--he of the mysterious face-- Gave it to me; Sacred Father--Grandfather!

Who acts: nápè · What happens: make, give · To what, where: down, red swan down, me

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nápè), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 down	case
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 down	amod
3	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 down	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 swan	punct
5	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 made	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
12	In	in	ADP	_	16 down	case
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 down	amod
14	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 down	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 swan	punct
16	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 made	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 Gave	punct
23	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 Gave	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 He	nmod
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 face	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 face	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 face	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 face	det
31	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 face	amod
32	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 He	appos
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 face	punct
34	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 Gave	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 Gave	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 Father	punct
39	Sacred	Sacred	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Father	compound
40	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 made	parataxis
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 Grandfather	punct
42	Grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Father	appos
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	nápè	down		red swan down	for me; Sacred Father parataxis	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for i=Beneficiary
2	make	past	nápè	down		red swan down	for me	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for i=Beneficiary
3	give	past	nápè	down	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient

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 4, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 102