Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 46

In the enchanting Cha-quam-e-gon Bay, defended by all the Apostles; [a] And thence by the Ké-we-naw, lay his course to the Mission Sainte Marie.

Who acts: e · What happens: enchant, go, defend, lie · To what, where: Bay, course, enchanting Cha

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 (e), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 Cha	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cha	det
3	enchanting	enchant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 Cha	amod
4	Cha	Cha	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Cha	punct
6	quam	quam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Cha	list
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 e	punct
8	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Cha	appos
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 gon	punct
10	gon	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 e	acl
11	Bay	Bay	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gon	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 defended	punct
13	defended	defend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Bay	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 Apostles	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 Apostles	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Apostles	det
17	Apostles	apostle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 defended	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 ]	punct
19	[	[	PUNCT	_	21 ]	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ]	det
21	]	]	PUNCT	_	4 Cha	punct
22	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 lay	cc
23	thence	thence	ADV	_	32 lay	advmod
24	by	by	ADP	_	30 naw	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 naw	det
26	Ké	Ké	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 naw	nsubj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 naw	punct
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 naw	nsubj
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 naw	punct
30	naw	naw	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 naw	punct
32	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ]	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 course	nmod:poss
34	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	39 Marie	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Marie	det
37	Mission	Mission	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Sainte	compound
38	Sainte	Sainte	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Marie	compound
39	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Cha	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enchant	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	gerund	e not said here	Bay		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bay=Theme
3	defend	participle		Bay not said here	by all Apostles	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	lie	past		Ké's course	by the naw Ké we; to the Sainte Marie; thence property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location course=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 46

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 46