Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 45
To bid the brave White Chief adieu, on the shady shore gathered the warriors; His glad boatmen manned the canoe, and the oars in their hands were impatient.
Who acts: shady shore, glad boatmen, oars · What happens: bid, gather, man, be · To what, where: brave Chief adieu, warriors, canoe
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 (shady shore, glad boatmen, oars), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 bid | mark |
| 2 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 adieu | det |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 adieu | amod |
| 5 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Chief | compound |
| 6 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 adieu | compound |
| 7 | adieu | adieu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bid | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gathered | punct |
| 9 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 gathered | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shore | det |
| 11 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shore | amod |
| 12 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gathered | nsubj |
| 13 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bid | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 warriors | det |
| 15 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gathered | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 manned | punct |
| 17 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 boatmen | nmod:poss |
| 18 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boatmen | amod |
| 19 | boatmen | boatman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 manned | nsubj |
| 20 | manned | man | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bid | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 canoe | det |
| 22 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 manned | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 impatient | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 impatient | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 oars | det |
| 26 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 impatient | nsubj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hands | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hands | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 oars | nmod |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 impatient | cop |
| 31 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 manned | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | to-infinitive | the brave Chief adieu | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gather | past | the shady shore | the warriors | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme | ||||
| 3 | man | past | shore's glad boatmen | the canoe | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the oars in oars's hands | impatient property | tree rules |
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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