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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 27

When the chief could no longer prevail on the white men to rest in his teepee, He guided their feet on the trail to the lakes of the winding Rice-River.

Who acts: chief, thrice · What happens: prevail, rest, guide · To what, where: teepee, feet, trail

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, thrice), 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

advmoddetnsubjauxadvmodadvmodcasedetamodoblmarkaclcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjparataxisnmod:possobjcasedetoblcasedetoblcasedetnmodappospunctconjpunctrootWhenADVtheDETchiefNOUNcouldAUXnoADVlongerADVprevailVERBonADPtheDETwhiteADJmenNOUNtoPARTrestVERBinADPhisPRONteepeeNOUN,PUNCTHePRONguidedVERBtheirPRONfeetNOUNonADPtheDETtrailNOUNtoADPtheDETlakesNOUNofADPtheDETwindingNOUNRicePROPN-PUNCTRiverPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int7 prevailadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 chiefdet
3chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing7 prevailnsubj
4couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin7 prevailaux
5nonoADV_6 longeradvmod
6longerlongADVDegree=Cmp7 prevailadvmod
7prevailprevailVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
8ononADP_11 mencase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 mendet
10whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos11 menamod
11menmanNOUNNumber=Plur7 prevailobl
12totoPART_13 restmark
13restrestVERBVerbForm=Inf11 menacl
14ininADP_16 teepeecase
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 teepeenmod:poss
16teepeeteepeeNOUNNumber=Sing13 restobl
17,,PUNCT_19 guidedpunct
18HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 guidednsubj
19guidedguideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 prevailparataxis
20theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 feetnmod:poss
21feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur19 guidedobj
22ononADP_24 trailcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 traildet
24trailtrailNOUNNumber=Sing19 guidedobl
25totoADP_27 lakescase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 lakesdet
27lakeslakeNOUNNumber=Plur19 guidedobl
28ofofADP_30 windingcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 windingdet
30windingwindingNOUNNumber=Sing27 lakesnmod
31RiceRicePROPNNumber=Sing30 windingappos
32--PUNCT_33 Riverpunct
33RiverRiverPROPNNumber=Sing31 Riceconj
34..PUNCT_7 prevailpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1prevailcouldthe chiefon the white men; long propertyvn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on man=Location
2restto-infinitivethe chief not said herethrice's teepeevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in teepee=Location
3guidepastthriceChief's feetthe trailto the lakes of the windingvn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on trail=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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