Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 61

Ta-té-psin, the aged brave, bends as he walks by the side of Winona; Her arm to his left hand she lends, and he feels with his staff for the pathway; On his slow, feeble footsteps attends his gray dog, the watchful Wicháka; [a] For blind in his years is the chief of a fever that followed the Summer, And the days of Ta-té-psin are brief.

Who acts: Ta, Winona, fever, days · What happens: bend, walk, lend, feel, attend, be · To what, where: arm, left hand, gray dog, slow feeble footsteps, blind chief, Summer

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 (Ta, Winona, fever, days), 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	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 psin	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Ta	punct
3	té	té	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 psin	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 psin	punct
5	psin	psin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 brave	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brave	det
8	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brave	amod
9	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 psin	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bends	punct
11	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 psin	parataxis
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 walks	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 walks	nsubj
14	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bends	advcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 side	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 side	det
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walks	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Winona	case
19	Winona	Winona	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 side	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 arm	punct
21	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arm	nmod:poss
22	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lends	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 hand	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
25	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hand	amod
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lends	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lends	nsubj
28	lends	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 psin	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 feels	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 feels	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 feels	nsubj
32	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 lends	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 staff	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 staff	nmod:poss
35	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 feels	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 pathway	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pathway	det
38	pathway	pathway	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 staff	nmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 attends	punct
40	On	on	ADP	_	45 footsteps	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 footsteps	nmod:poss
42	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 footsteps	amod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 slow	punct
44	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 footsteps	amod
45	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 attends	obl
46	attends	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 lends	conj
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 dog	nmod:poss
48	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 dog	amod
49	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 attends	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 Wicháka	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Wicháka	det
52	watchful	watchful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 Wicháka	amod
53	Wicháka	Wicháka	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 attends	obl
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	65 chief	punct
55	[	[	PUNCT	_	59 blind	punct
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 blind	det
57	]	]	PUNCT	_	59 blind	punct
58	For	for	ADP	_	59 blind	case
59	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 chief	amod
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 years	case
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 years	nmod:poss
62	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 blind	obl
63	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 chief	cop
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 chief	det
65	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 psin	conj
66	of	of	ADP	_	68 fever	case
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 fever	det
68	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 chief	nmod
69	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	70 followed	nsubj
70	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 fever	acl:relcl
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 Summer	det
72	Summer	Summer	PROPN	Number=Sing	70 followed	obj
73	,	,	PUNCT	_	84 brief	punct
74	And	and	CCONJ	_	84 brief	cc
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 days	det
76	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	84 brief	nsubj
77	of	of	ADP	_	82 psin	case
78	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	82 psin	compound
79	-	-	PUNCT	_	78 Ta	punct
80	té	té	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 psin	compound
81	-	-	PUNCT	_	80 té	punct
82	psin	psin	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 days	nmod
83	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	84 brief	cop
84	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 psin	conj
85	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 psin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend	present						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	present	Ta				by the side of Winona	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory
3	lend	present	Winona	Winona's arm	Ta's left hand			vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hand=Recipient
4	feel	present	Ta				with Ta's staff for the pathway	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	attend	present	Winona not said here		Ta's gray dog	Ta's slow feeble footsteps	the watchful Wicháka obl	vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Goal
6	is a	present		the blind chief			of a fever	tree rules
7	follow	past	a fever	the Summer				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summer=Theme
8	is	present	the days of Ta té psin				brief property	tree rules

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 61

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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 61