Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 28

[a] Now on speeds the light bark canoe, through the lakes to the broad Gitchee Seebee; [b] And up the great river they row, --up the Big Sandy Lake and Savanna; And down through the meadows they go to the river of broad Gitchee Gumee.

Who acts: Chief · What happens: speed, up, row, go · To what, where: bark canoe, lakes, great river, meadows

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), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 speeds	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 speeds	det
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 a	punct
4	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 speeds	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 speeds	case
6	speeds	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 canoe	det
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bark	compound
9	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 canoe	compound
10	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speeds	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lakes	punct
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 lakes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lakes	det
14	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 speeds	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 Seebee	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Seebee	det
17	broad	broad	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Seebee	compound
18	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Seebee	compound
19	Seebee	Seebee	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 lakes	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 up	punct
21	[	[	PUNCT	_	22 b	punct
22	b	b	NUM	_	25 up	discourse
23	]	]	PUNCT	_	22 b	punct
24	And	and	CCONJ	_	25 up	cc
25	up	up	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 speeds	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 river	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 river	amod
28	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 up	obj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 row	nsubj
30	row	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 river	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 up	punct
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 Lake	punct
33	up	up	ADP	_	37 Lake	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Lake	det
35	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Lake	amod
36	Sandy	Sandy	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Lake	compound
37	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 up	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Savanna	cc
39	Savanna	Savanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Lake	conj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 down	punct
41	And	and	CCONJ	_	42 down	cc
42	down	down	ADV	_	6 speeds	advmod
43	through	through	ADP	_	45 meadows	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 meadows	det
45	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 down	obl
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 go	nsubj
47	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 meadows	acl:relcl
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 river	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 river	det
50	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 go	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 Gitchee	case
52	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 Gitchee	amod
53	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 river	nmod
54	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Gitchee	flat
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 speeds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speed	present		the bark canoe	the lakes to the broad Gitchee Seebee	now	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme through lake=Trajectory
2	up	past		the great river			up the Big Sandy Lake and Savanna; b discourse	tree rules
3	row	present	Chief	the great river not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme
4	go	present	Chief	the meadows not said here			to the river of broad Gitchee	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meadow=Theme

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 6, sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 28