Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 32

In the twilight of sundown she sat, in the forest, all weak and despairing; Ta-té-psin's bow lay at her feet, and his otter skin quiver of arrows. "

Who acts: pheasant, bow, arrows · What happens: sit, despair, lie, quiver · To what, where: twilight, skin quiver, feet

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 (pheasant, bow, arrows), 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 twilight	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 twilight	det
3	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sundown	case
5	sundown	sundown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twilight	nmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 forest	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 weak	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 weak	det
14	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forest	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 despairing	cc
16	despairing	despair	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 weak	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 lay	punct
18	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 psin	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Ta	punct
20	té	té	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 psin	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 té	punct
22	psin	psin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bow	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 psin	case
24	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lay	nsubj
25	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 feet	nmod:poss
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lay	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 quiver	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 quiver	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 otter	nmod:poss
32	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 skin	compound
33	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 quiver	compound
34	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lay	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 arrows	case
36	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 quiver	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	pheasant		the twilight of sundown	in the forest	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in twilight=Location
2	despair	gerund	pheasant not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	lie	past	Ta té psin's bow	skin quiver of arrows	pheasant's feet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
4	quiver		arrows				nom quiver «feeling 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 7, sentence 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 32