Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 37

[d] they jeered, for they liked not the boast of the boaster; But to match him no warrior appeared, for his feet wore the wings of the west-wind.

Who acts: d, hunters, warrior, feet, boaster · What happens: jeer, not like, match, appear, wear, boast · To what, where: boast, d, wings

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 (d, hunters, warrior, feet), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 d	punct
2	d	D	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jeered	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 d	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 jeered	nsubj
5	jeered	jeer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 liked	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 liked	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 liked	nsubj
9	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jeered	conj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 liked	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boast	det
12	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 liked	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 boaster	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boaster	det
15	boaster	boaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boast	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 match	punct
17	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 match	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	19 match	mark
19	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 jeered	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 match	obj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 warrior	det
22	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 appeared	nsubj
23	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 match	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wore	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 wore	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 feet	nmod:poss
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wore	nsubj
28	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 appeared	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wings	det
30	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wore	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 wind	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wind	det
33	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wind	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 west	punct
35	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wings	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 jeered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jeer	past	d		hunters = hunter nsubj	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not like	past	hunters = hunter	the boast of the boaster		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boast=Theme
3	match	to-infinitive	d not said here	d		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	appear	past	no warrior			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wear	past	d's feet	the wings of the west wind		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wing=Source
6	boast		the boaster			nom boast «communication intransitive»: of=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 4, sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 37