Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 18

They have finished the song and the sacred dance, And hand in hand to the feast advance-- To the polished bowls of the golden maize, And the sweet fawn meat in the polished trays.

Who acts: feet · What happens: finish, polish · To what, where: song

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 (feet), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finished	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finished	aux
3	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finished	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dance	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dance	det
8	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dance	amod
9	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 song	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hand	punct
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 hand	cc
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finished	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 hand	case
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hand	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 advance	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 advance	det
17	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 advance	compound
18	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finished	obl
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 bowls	punct
20	To	to	ADP	_	23 bowls	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bowls	det
22	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 bowls	amod
23	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 finished	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 maize	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 maize	det
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 maize	amod
27	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bowls	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 meat	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	33 meat	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 meat	det
31	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 meat	amod
32	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 meat	compound
33	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finished	parataxis
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 trays	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 trays	det
36	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 trays	amod
37	trays	tray	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 meat	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	finish	present · perfect	feet = foot	the song and the sacred dance	to the feast advance; to the polished bowls of the golden maize; hand in hand obl; the sweet fawn meat in the polished trays parataxis	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality song=Eventuality
2	polish	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	polish	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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 1, sentence 18

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Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 18