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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 46

Spake the Chief of Isántees, --"A feast will await the return of my brother In peace rose the sun in the East, in peace in the West he descended.

Who acts: feast, Spake Chief, peace, brother · What happens: await, rise, descend, return · To what, where: return, peace, sun, East

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 (feast, Spake Chief, peace, brother), 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

compounddetnsubjcasenmodpunctpunctpunctdetnsubjauxacl:relcldetobjcasenmod:possnmodcaseobldetobjcasedetoblpunctcasensubjcasedetnmodnsubjconjpunctrootSpakePROPNtheDETChiefPROPNofADPIsánteesPROPN,PUNCT--PUNCT"PUNCTADETfeastNOUNwillAUXawaitVERBtheDETreturnNOUNofADPmyPRONbrotherNOUNInADPpeaceNOUNroseVERBtheDETsunNOUNinADPtheDETEastPROPN,PUNCTinADPpeaceNOUNinADPtheDETWestPROPNhePRONdescendedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SpakespeakPROPNNumber=Sing3 Chiefcompound
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Chiefdet
3ChiefChiefPROPNNumber=Sing20 rosensubj
4ofofADP_5 Isánteescase
5IsánteesIsánteePROPNNumber=Plur3 Chiefnmod
6,,PUNCT_12 awaitpunct
7----PUNCT_12 awaitpunct
8""PUNCT_12 awaitpunct
9AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 feastdet
10feastfeastNOUNNumber=Sing12 awaitnsubj
11willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin12 awaitaux
12awaitawaitVERBVerbForm=Inf3 Chiefacl:relcl
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 returndet
14returnreturnNOUNNumber=Sing12 awaitobj
15ofofADP_17 brothercase
16mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 brothernmod:poss
17brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing14 returnnmod
18IninADP_19 peacecase
19peacepeaceNOUNNumber=Sing12 awaitobl
20roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 sundet
22sunsunNOUNNumber=Sing20 roseobj
23ininADP_25 Eastcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 Eastdet
25EastEastPROPNNumber=Sing20 roseobl
26,,PUNCT_28 peacepunct
27ininADP_28 peacecase
28peacepeaceNOUNNumber=Sing33 descendednsubj
29ininADP_31 Westcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 Westdet
31WestWestPROPNNumber=Sing28 peacenmod
32hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 descendednsubj
33descendeddescendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 roseconj
34..PUNCT_20 rosepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1await in a quotefuturea feastthe return of my brotherpeacetree rules
2rise in a quotepastthe Spake Chief of Isánteesthe sunthe Eastvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun=Theme
3descend in a quotepastpeace in the Westvn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4return in a quotemy brothernom return «communication 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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