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

At the Game of the Plum-stones [77] he played and he won from the skillfulest players; A feast to Wa'tánka [78] he made, and he danced at the feast of Heyóka.

Who acts: esteem, feast · What happens: play, win, make, dance · To what, where: Game, skillfulest players, feast

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 (esteem, feast), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 Game	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Game	det
3	Game	Game	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 played	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 stones	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stones	det
6	Plum	Plum	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stones	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Plum	punct
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Game	nmod
9	[	[	PUNCT	_	10 77	punct
10	77	77	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 Game	appos
11	]	]	PUNCT	_	10 77	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 played	nsubj
13	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 won	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 won	nsubj
16	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 played	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 players	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 players	det
19	skillfulest	skillful	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 players	amod
20	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 won	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
22	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 feast	det
23	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	nsubj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Wa'tánka	case
25	Wa'tánka	Wa'tánka	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 feast	nmod
26	[	[	PUNCT	_	27 78	punct
27	78	78	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 Wa'tánka	appos
28	]	]	PUNCT	_	27 78	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 made	nsubj
30	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 played	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 danced	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 danced	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 danced	nsubj
34	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 made	conj
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 feast	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 feast	det
37	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 danced	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Heyóka	case
39	Heyóka	Heyóka	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 feast	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	play	past	esteem	the Game of the Plum stones		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	win	past	esteem	the skillfulest players		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from player=Source
3	make	past	a feast to Wa'tánka		esteem nsubj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	dance	past	esteem	the feast of Heyóka		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at feast=Location

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 4

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Pragmatics

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