Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 128

But the man-wolf still followed his prey, and the step-mother ruled in the tepee; Her will must Winona obey, by the custom and law of Dakotas.

Who acts: man wolf, Winona · What happens: follow, rule, obey · To what, where: prey, step mother, tepee, custom

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man wolf, Winona), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 followed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wolf	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 followed	advmod
7	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 prey	nmod:poss
9	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mother	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mother	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mother	det
13	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mother	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 step	punct
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	obl
16	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 mother	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 tepee	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tepee	det
19	tepee	tepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ruled	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 obey	punct
21	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 Winona	nmod:poss
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 Winona	aux
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 Winona	aux
24	Winona	Winona	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 obey	nsubj
25	obey	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 followed	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 custom	punct
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 custom	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 custom	det
29	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 obey	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 law	cc
31	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 custom	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Dakotas	case
33	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 law	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the man wolf	cliff's prey		still	the step mother obl	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme
2	rule	participle		the step mother not said here	the tepee			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	obey	present	porcupine's Winona	the custom and law of Dakotas				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=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 7, sentence 128

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 128