Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 21

And thrice were the gifts sent away, but the tongue of the mother protested, And the were wolf [52] still follows his prey, abides but the death of my father."

Who acts: thrice, tongue, wolf, father · What happens: be, send away, protest, follow, abide, die · To what, where: gifts, wolf, prey, death

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 (thrice, tongue, wolf, father), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 were	cc
2	thrice	thrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 were	nsubj
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 protested	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gifts	det
5	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 gifts	acl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 sent	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 protested	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 protested	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tongue	det
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 protested	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 mother	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tongue	nmod
15	protested	protest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 follows	punct
17	And	and	CCONJ	_	25 follows	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wolf	det
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wolf	cop
20	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 follows	nsubj
21	[	[	PUNCT	_	22 52	punct
22	52	52	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 wolf	appos
23	]	]	PUNCT	_	22 52	punct
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 follows	advmod
25	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 protested	parataxis
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 prey	nmod:poss
27	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 follows	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 abides	punct
29	abides	abide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 follows	conj
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 death	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 death	det
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 abides	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 father	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 death	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 protested	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 protested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	thrice			the gifts nsubj	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	send away	participle		the gifts not said here		away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	protest speech: disagree	past	the tongue of the mother				vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		the wolf		52 appos	tree rules
5	follow	present	the wolf	wolf's prey	still		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme
6	abide	present	the wolf not said here	the death of my father			tree rules
7	die		my father				nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 21

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Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 21