Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 100

But wary and armed to the teeth are the resolute Frenchmen and ready, If need be, to grapple with death, and to die hand to hand in the desert.

Who acts: need · What happens: be, die, hand · To what, where: resolute Frenchmen, hand, desert

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (need), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 wary	cc
2	wary	wary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 armed	cc
4	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wary	conj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 teeth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teeth	det
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 armed	obl
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Frenchmen	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Frenchmen	det
10	resolute	resolute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Frenchmen	amod
11	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 teeth	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ready	cc
13	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Frenchmen	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grapple	punct
15	If	if	SCONJ	_	20 grapple	mark
16	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grapple	nsubj
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 grapple	cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grapple	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 grapple	mark
20	grapple	grapple	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wary	parataxis
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 death	case
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grapple	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 die	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 die	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 die	mark
26	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 grapple	conj
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 die	obl:unmarked
28	to	to	PART	_	29 hand	mark
29	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 die	xcomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 desert	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 desert	det
32	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hand	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the resolute Frenchmen			tree rules
2	be						tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	need			with death; grapple property	tree rules
4	die	to-infinitive	need not said here	hand			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	hand	to-infinitive	need not said here		the desert		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 5, sentence 100

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 100