Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 3

Not a morsel of food have the Virgins tasted For three long days ere the holy feast; They sat in their teepee alone and fasted, Their faces turned to the Sacred East.

Who acts: morsel, Virgins, three long days, faces · What happens: have, taste, ere, sit, fast, turn · To what, where: holy feast, teepee

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 (morsel, Virgins, three long days, faces), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 morsel	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 morsel	det
3	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 morsel	nmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Virgins	det
8	Virgins	virgin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tasted	nsubj
9	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	ccomp
10	For	for	SCONJ	_	14 ere	mark
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 days	nummod
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 days	amod
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ere	nsubj
14	ere	ere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tasted	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 feast	det
16	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 feast	amod
17	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ere	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sat	punct
19	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sat	nsubj
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 teepee	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 teepee	nmod:poss
23	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	obl
24	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 sat	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fasted	cc
26	fasted	fast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 sat	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 turned	punct
28	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 faces	nmod:poss
29	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 turned	nsubj
30	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sat	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 East	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 East	det
33	Sacred	Sacred	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 East	compound
34	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 turned	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a morsel of food				tree rules
2	taste	past	the Virgins				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	ere	past	three long days	the holy feast			tree rules
4	sit	past	Virgins = virgin		Virgins's teepee	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in teepee=Location
5	fast	participle	Virgins = virgin not said here				tree rules
6	turn	past	Virgins's faces			to the Sacred East result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to east=Result

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 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 3