Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 85

When the cold winds of winter return, and toss the white robes of the prairies, The fire of the White Chief will burn, in his lodge, at the Meeting-of-Waters.

Who acts: cold winds, fire · What happens: toss, burn, wind, fire · To what, where: white robes, lodge, winter return, White Chief

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 (cold winds, fire), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	10 toss	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 winds	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 winds	amod
4	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 toss	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 return	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 return	compound
7	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 winds	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 toss	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 toss	cc
10	toss	toss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 robes	det
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 robes	amod
13	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 toss	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 prairies	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prairies	det
16	prairies	prairie	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 robes	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fire	punct
18	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 burn	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 Chief	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Chief	det
22	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Chief	compound
23	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 fire	nmod
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 burn	aux
25	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 robes	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lodge	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 lodge	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 lodge	nmod:poss
29	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 toss	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Waters	punct
31	at	at	ADP	_	37 Waters	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Waters	det
33	Meeting	Meeting	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Waters	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Waters	punct
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Waters	case
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 of	punct
37	Waters	Water	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 toss	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 toss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	toss	infinitive	the cold winds of winter return	the white robes of the prairies	fire's lodge	the Meeting Waters conj	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent robe=Theme in lodge=Destination
2	burn	future	the fire of the White Chief	the white robes of the prairies not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme
3	wind			winter return			nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
4	fire			the White Chief			nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient

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 85

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 85