Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 27

From sunrise till sunset she sped; half-famished she camped in the thicket; In the cold snow she made her lone bed; on the buds of the birch [a] made her supper.

Who acts: Ta, birch · What happens: speed, famish, camp, make · To what, where: buds, thicket, lone bed, Winona, cold snow, supper

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 (Ta, birch), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 sunrise	case
2	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sped	obl
3	till	till	ADP	_	4 sunset	case
4	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sunrise	nmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sped	nsubj
6	sped	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 famished	punct
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	10 famished	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 half	punct
10	famished	famish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sped	ccomp
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 camped	nsubj
12	camped	camp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 famished	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 thicket	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thicket	det
15	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 camped	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
17	In	in	ADP	_	20 snow	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 snow	det
19	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 snow	amod
20	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sped	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	obj
24	lone	lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bed	amod
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 buds	punct
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 buds	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 buds	det
29	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sped	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 birch	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 birch	det
32	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 buds	nmod
33	[	[	PUNCT	_	36 made	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 made	det
35	]	]	PUNCT	_	34 a	punct
36	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 birch	acl:relcl
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 supper	nmod:poss
38	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 made	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speed	past	Ta			the buds of the birch	sunrise		tree rules
2	famish	participle	Ta not said here					half compound	tree rules
3	camp	past	Ta			the thicket			vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in thicket=Location
4	make	past	Ta	lone bed	Winona	the cold snow			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary bed=Product
5	make	past	the birch not said here	Ta's supper					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset supper=Product

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 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 27