Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 74

When Unktéhee had finished the earth, and the beasts and the birds and the fishes, And men at his bidding came forth from the heart of the huge hollow mountains [69] A band chose the god from the hordes, and he said "Ye are sons of Unktéhee; Ye are lords of the beasts and the birds, and the fishes that swim in the waters.

Who acts: men, band, Ye, fishes, Unktéhee · What happens: finish, come, choose, say, be, swim · To what, where: Unktéhee, heart, god, hordes, sons, lords · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, band, Ye, fishes), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	Unktéhee	Unktéhee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 finished	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 chose	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 earth	det
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heart	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 heart	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beasts	det
10	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 heart	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 birds	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 birds	det
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beasts	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fishes	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fishes	det
16	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 birds	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 came	nsubj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 bidding	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 bidding	nmod:poss
22	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 men	nmod
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 heart	csubj
24	forth	forth	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 heart	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 heart	det
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 mountains	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mountains	det
30	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mountains	amod
31	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mountains	amod
32	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 heart	nmod
33	[	[	PUNCT	_	34 69	punct
34	69	69	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 mountains	appos
35	]	]	PUNCT	_	34 69	punct
36	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 band	det
37	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 chose	nsubj
38	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 god	det
40	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 chose	obj
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 hordes	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 hordes	det
43	hordes	horde	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 chose	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 said	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 said	cc
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 said	nsubj
47	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 chose	conj
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 sons	punct
49	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	51 sons	nsubj
50	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 sons	cop
51	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 said	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 Unktéhee	case
53	Unktéhee	Unktéhee	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 sons	nmod
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 lords	punct
55	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	57 lords	nsubj
56	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 lords	cop
57	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 said	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 beasts	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 beasts	det
60	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 lords	nmod
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 birds	cc
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 birds	det
63	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 beasts	conj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 fishes	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 fishes	cc
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 fishes	det
67	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 lords	conj
68	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	69 swim	nsubj
69	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 fishes	acl:relcl
70	in	in	ADP	_	72 waters	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 waters	det
72	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 swim	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 chose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect · passive		Unktéhee	the heart the beasts and the birds and the fishes of the huge hollow mountains	the earth obj	tree rules
2	come	past	men at Unktéhee's bidding			forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	choose	past	a band	the god	the hordes		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent god=Theme from horde=Source
4	say speech: assert	past	band				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	Ye	sons		of Unktéhee	tree rules
6	is a in a quote	present	Ye	lords and the fishes		of the beasts and the birds; the fishes conj	tree rules
7	swim in a quote	present	the fishes		the waters		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory
8	bid		Unktéhee				nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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 74

The tree

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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 74