Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 139

But his hunters chafed at the long delay, For the swarthy bison were far away, And the brave young chief from the lodge departed.

Who acts: hunters, swarthy bison, brave young chief · What happens: chafe, be, depart · To what, where: long delay

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters, swarthy bison, brave young chief), 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	_	4 chafed	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hunters	nmod:poss
3	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chafed	nsubj
4	chafed	chafe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 delay	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 delay	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 delay	amod
8	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chafed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 away	punct
10	For	for	ADP	_	16 away	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bison	det
12	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bison	amod
13	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 away	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 away	cop
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 away	advmod
16	away	away	ADV	_	4 chafed	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 departed	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	26 departed	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chief	det
20	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 chief	amod
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 chief	amod
22	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 departed	nsubj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 lodge	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lodge	det
25	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chief	nmod
26	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chafed	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chafed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	chafe	past	cheek's hunters	the long delay		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the swarthy bison		away, far property	tree rules
3	depart	past	the brave young chief from the lodge			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 139

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 139