Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 34

Their luggage the _voyageurs_ bore down the long, winding path of the portage, [a] While they mingled their song with the roar of the turbid and turbulent waters.

Who acts: Ojibways, turbid waters · What happens: wind, mingle, sing, roar · To what, where: path, song, luggage

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 (Ojibways, turbid waters), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 luggage	nmod:poss
2	luggage	luggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 voyageurs	det
4	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voyageurs	amod
5	voyageurs	voyageur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 luggage	conj
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 bore	punct
7	bore	bore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 luggage	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	10 long	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 long	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bore	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 winding	punct
12	winding	wind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 luggage	conj
13	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 winding	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 portage	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 portage	det
16	portage	portage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 path	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 luggage	punct
18	[	[	PUNCT	_	19 a	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 luggage	appos
20	]	]	PUNCT	_	19 a	punct
21	While	while	SCONJ	_	23 mingled	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 mingled	nsubj
23	mingled	mingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ]	advcl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 song	nmod:poss
25	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mingled	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 roar	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 roar	det
28	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mingled	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	34 waters	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 waters	det
31	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 waters	amod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 turbulent	cc
33	turbulent	turbulent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 turbid	conj
34	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 roar	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 luggage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wind	gerund		path of the portage		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent path=Theme
2	mingle	past	Ojibways = ojibway	Ojibways's song	with the roar of the turbid waters	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent song=Patient with roar=Co-Patient
4	sing		Ojibways = ojibway			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
5	roar		the turbid waters			nom roar «event 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 34