Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 92

See! the _voyageurs_ bend to their oars till the blue veins swell out on their foreheads; And the sweat from their brawny breasts pours; but in vain their Herculean labor; For the oars of Tamdôka are ten, and but six are the oars of the Frenchmen, And the red warriors' burden of men is matched by the _voyageur's_ luggage.

Who acts: you, blue veins, oars, _ luggage, red warriors · What happens: see, swell out, be, match, burden · To what, where: _ voyageurs, foreheads, ten, six oars, burden, men

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 (you, blue veins, oars, _ luggage), 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	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 voyageurs	det
4	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voyageurs	amod
5	voyageurs	voyageur	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 See	obj
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 bend	punct
7	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 voyageurs	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 oars	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 oars	nmod:poss
10	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 See	obl
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 swell	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 veins	det
13	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 veins	amod
14	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 swell	nsubj
15	swell	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 See	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 swell	compound:prt
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 foreheads	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 foreheads	nmod:poss
19	foreheads	forehead	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 swell	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sweat	punct
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 sweat	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sweat	det
23	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 See	obl
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 breasts	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 breasts	nmod:poss
26	brawny	brawny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 breasts	amod
27	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sweat	nmod
28	pours	pour	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 breasts	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 labor	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 labor	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	35 labor	case
32	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 labor	amod
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 labor	nmod:poss
34	Herculean	herculean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 labor	amod
35	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 See	parataxis
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 oars	punct
37	For	for	ADP	_	39 oars	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 oars	det
39	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 ten	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Tamdôka	case
41	Tamdôka	Tamdôka	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 oars	nmod
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 ten	cop
43	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 labor	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 oars	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 oars	cc
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 oars	cc
47	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 oars	nummod
48	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 oars	cop
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 oars	det
50	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 labor	conj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 Frenchmen	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Frenchmen	det
53	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	Number=Plur	50 oars	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 burden	punct
55	And	and	CCONJ	_	60 burden	cc
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 warriors	det
57	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 warriors	amod
58	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 burden	nmod:poss
59	'	's	PART	_	58 warriors	case
60	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 matched	nsubj:pass
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 men	case
62	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 burden	nmod
63	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 matched	aux:pass
64	matched	match	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 labor	acl:relcl
65	by	by	ADP	_	71 luggage	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 voyageur	det
67	_	_	PUNCT	_	68 voyageur	punct
68	voyageur	voyageur	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 luggage	nmod:poss
69	's	's	PART	_	68 voyageur	case
70	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 luggage	amod
71	luggage	luggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 matched	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	the _ voyageurs and bend		to voyageurs's oars; the sweat from veins's brawny breasts and pours obl; veins's vain Herculean labor and the six oars parataxis	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voyageur=Stimulus
2	swell out	present	the blue veins		veins's foreheads		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is a	present	the oars of Tamdôka	ten			tree rules
4	is a	present	you not said here	the six oars		of the Frenchmen	tree rules
5	match	present · passive	the voyageur's _ luggage	the red warriors's burden of men			vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
6	burden		the red warriors	men			nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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 92

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 92