Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 96

When the braves told their tale, like a bird sang the heart of Winona rejoicing, But gladlier still had she heard of the death of the crafty Tamdóka.

Who acts: braves, heart, Winona, crafty Tamdóka · What happens: tell, sing, rejoice, have, hear, die · To what, where: tale, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (braves, heart, Winona, crafty Tamdóka), 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	_	4 told	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 braves	det
3	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sang	advcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tale	nmod:poss
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 bird	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sang	obl
11	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heart	det
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sang	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Winona	case
15	Winona	Winona	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 heart	nmod
16	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 heart	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gladlier	punct
18	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 gladlier	cc
19	gladlier	gladly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 sang	conj
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 had	advmod
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gladlier	advcl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 heard	nsubj
23	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 had	xcomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 death	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 death	det
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heard	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 Tamdóka	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Tamdóka	det
29	crafty	crafty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Tamdóka	amod
30	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 death	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the braves	braves's tale			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
2	sing speech: express	past		the heart of Winona		like a bird	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heart=Theme
3	rejoice	gerund	the heart of Winona not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past			still		tree rules
5	hear	participle	Winona			of the death of the crafty Tamdóka	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of death=Stimulus
6	tell		braves = brave				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
7	die		the crafty Tamdóka				nom death «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 96

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 96