Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 14

The White Chief is blameless," she said, "but the heart of Winona will follow Wherever thy footsteps may lead, O blue-eyed brave Chief of the white men.

Who acts: White Chief, Tanké, heart, footsteps · What happens: be, say, follow, lead · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (White Chief, Tanké, heart, footsteps), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Chief	det
2	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Chief	compound
3	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 blameless	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blameless	cop
5	blameless	blameless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blameless	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 blameless	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 follow	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 heart	det
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 follow	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Winona	case
16	Winona	Winona	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 heart	nmod
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 follow	aux
18	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 blameless	conj
19	Wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	23 lead	advmod
20	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 footsteps	nmod:poss
21	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lead	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 lead	aux
23	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 follow	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Chief	punct
25	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	30 Chief	case
26	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eyed	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 blue	punct
28	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Chief	amod
29	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Chief	amod
30	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 lead	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 men	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 men	det
33	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 men	amod
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 Chief	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blameless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	the White Chief	blameless property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Tanké		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	follow	future	the heart of Winona		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lead	may	thy footsteps	of eyed brave Chief of the white men; wherever property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent of chief=Destination

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 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 14