Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 76

From their dens came the coon and the bear; o'er the snow through the woodlands they wandered; On her snow shoes with stout bow and spear on their trails ran the huntress Winona.

Who acts: Islands, trails · What happens: come, wander, run · To what, where: coon, dens, snow shoes, huntress

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 (Islands, trails), 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	_	3 dens	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dens	nmod:poss
3	dens	den	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coon	det
6	coon	coon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bear	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bear	det
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coon	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wandered	punct
11	o'er	o'er	ADP	_	13 snow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 snow	det
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wandered	obl
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 woodlands	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woodlands	det
16	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 snow	nmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wandered	nsubj
18	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 shoes	punct
20	On	on	ADP	_	23 shoes	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shoes	nmod:poss
22	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shoes	compound
23	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wandered	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 bow	case
25	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bow	amod
26	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shoes	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spear	cc
28	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bow	conj
29	on	on	SCONJ	_	32 ran	mark
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 trails	nmod:poss
31	trails	trail	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ran	nsubj
32	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wandered	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 huntress	det
34	huntress	huntress	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ran	obj
35	Winona	Winona	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 huntress	appos
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past		the coon and the bear	Islands's dens		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coon=Theme
2	wander	past	Islands = island		bear's snow shoes with stout bow and spear	o'er the snow through the woodlands	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoe=Trajectory
3	run	past	Islands's trails	the huntress			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme huntress=Trajectory

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 76

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 76