Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 14

In the tee of Ta-té-psin the store of wild-rice and dried meat was exhausted; And Famine crept in at the door, and sat crouching and gaunt by the lodge-fire.

Who acts: Famine · What happens: dry, exhaust, creep in, sit, crouch, gaunt · To what, where: store, tee, door

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 (Famine), 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	_	3 tee	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tee	det
3	tee	tee	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 exhausted	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 psin	case
5	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 psin	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Ta	punct
7	té	té	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 psin	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 té	punct
9	psin	psin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tee	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 store	det
11	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 exhausted	nsubj:pass
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 rice	case
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rice	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 wild	punct
15	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 store	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 meat	cc
17	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 meat	amod
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 store	conj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 exhausted	aux:pass
20	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 crept	punct
22	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 crept	cc
23	Famine	Famine	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 crept	nsubj
24	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 exhausted	parataxis
25	in	in	ADV	_	24 crept	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 door	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 crept	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sat	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sat	cc
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 crept	conj
32	crouching	crouch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 sat	advcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gaunt	cc
34	gaunt	gaunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 crouching	conj
35	by	by	ADP	_	39 fire	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 fire	det
37	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fire	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 lodge	punct
39	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gaunt	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 exhausted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	exhaust	past · passive		the store of wild rice and dried meat	the tee of Ta té psin		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	creep in	past	Famine		the door		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Trajectory
4	sit	past	Famine not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	crouch	gerund	Famine not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	gaunt	infinitive	Famine not said here			by the lodge fire	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 7, sentence 14

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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 14