Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 118

He promised to come with the robins in May, With the bridal gifts for the bridal day; But the fair May mornings have slipped away, And where is the lover--the brave Chaskè?

Who acts: mound, fair May mornings · What happens: promise, come, slip away, be · To what, where: lover

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mound, fair May mornings), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 come	mark
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 robins	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 robins	det
7	robins	robin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 May	case
9	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 robins	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gifts	punct
11	With	with	ADP	_	14 gifts	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gifts	det
13	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gifts	amod
14	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 robins	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 day	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gifts	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 slipped	punct
20	But	but	CCONJ	_	26 slipped	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mornings	det
22	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mornings	amod
23	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 mornings	compound
24	mornings	morning	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 slipped	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 slipped	aux
26	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 promised	parataxis
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 slipped	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lover	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	33 lover	cc
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 lover	advmod
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 lover	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lover	det
33	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slipped	conj
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 Chaskè	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Chaskè	det
36	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Chaskè	amod
37	Chaskè	Chaskè	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 lover	appos
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	mound			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	mound not said here		with the robins in May and the bridal gifts for the bridal day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	slip away	present · perfect	the fair May mornings		away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a	present	the fair May mornings not said here	the lover	the brave Chaskè appos	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 1, sentence 118

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 118