Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 102

Round their low, smouldering fire, feigning sleep, lie the watchful and wily Dakotas; But DuLuth and his _voyageurs_ heap their fire that shall blaze till the morning, Ere they lay themselves snugly to rest, with their guns by their side on the blankets, As if there were none to molest but the ravening beasts of the forest.

Who acts: _ voyageurs, fire, DuLuth, none, Algonkins · What happens: smoulder, feign, lie, heap, blaze, rest · To what, where: fire, sleep, watchful Dakotas, Algonkins

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 (_ voyageurs, fire, DuLuth, none), 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	Round	round	ADP	_	3 low	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 low	nmod:poss
3	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smouldering	punct
5	smouldering	smoulder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 low	advcl
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smouldering	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 feigning	punct
8	feigning	feign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 smouldering	conj
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feigning	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
11	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 feigning	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Dakotas	det
13	watchful	watchful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Dakotas	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wily	cc
15	wily	wily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 watchful	conj
16	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lie	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 DuLuth	punct
18	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 DuLuth	cc
19	DuLuth	DuLuth	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 lay	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 voyageurs	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 voyageurs	nmod:poss
22	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 voyageurs	amod
23	voyageurs	voyageur	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 DuLuth	conj
24	_	_	PART	_	25 heap	mark
25	heap	heap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 voyageurs	acl
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fire	nmod:poss
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heap	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 blaze	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 blaze	aux
30	blaze	blaze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 fire	acl:relcl
31	till	till	ADP	_	33 morning	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 morning	det
33	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blaze	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Ere	punct
35	Ere	Ere	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 lay	nsubj
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 lay	nsubj
37	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 low	parataxis
38	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 lay	obj
39	snugly	snugly	ADV	_	41 rest	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 rest	mark
41	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 lay	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 guns	punct
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 guns	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 guns	nmod:poss
45	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 rest	obl
46	by	by	ADP	_	48 side	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 side	nmod:poss
48	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 guns	nmod
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 blankets	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 blankets	det
51	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 side	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 were	punct
53	As	as	SCONJ	_	56 were	mark
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	56 were	mark
55	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	56 were	expl
56	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 lay	conj
57	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	56 were	nsubj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 molest	mark
59	molest	molest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 none	acl
60	but	but	CCONJ	_	63 beasts	cc
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 beasts	det
62	ravening	raven	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	63 beasts	amod
63	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 none	conj
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 forest	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 forest	det
66	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 beasts	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 low	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smoulder	gerund		fire				tree rules
2	feign	gerund		sleep				tree rules
3	lie	infinitive		the watchful Dakotas				vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dakota=Theme
4	heap	infinitive	Duluth's _ voyageurs not said here	Algonkins's fire				vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
5	blaze	shall	Algonkins's fire			morning		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lie	past	DuLuth and Duluth's _ voyageurs	Algonkins = algonkin			Ere nsubj	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
7	rest	to-infinitive	DuLuth and Duluth's _ voyageurs not said here				with Algonkins's guns by Algonkins's side on the blankets; snugly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	be a condition, not said to happen	past	none the ravening beasts of the forest		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	molest	to-infinitive	none the ravening beasts of the forest not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
10	raven	gerund						tree rules
12	fire		Algonkins = algonkin					nom fire «event 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 5, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 102