Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 6

So gaily the Virgins are decked and dressed, And none but a virgin may enter there; And clad is each in a scarlet vest, And a fawn skin frock to the brown calves bare.

Who acts: none · What happens: deck, dress, enter, clad · To what, where: gaily Virgins, each, scarlet vest

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 (none), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 gaily	advmod
2	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Virgins	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Virgins	det
4	Virgins	Virgin	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 decked	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 decked	aux:pass
6	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dressed	cc
8	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 decked	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 enter	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 enter	cc
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	16 enter	nsubj
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 virgin	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 virgin	det
14	virgin	virgin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 none	conj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 enter	aux
16	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 decked	parataxis
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 enter	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 clad	punct
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 clad	cc
20	clad	clad	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 decked	conj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 each	cop
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 clad	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 vest	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 vest	det
25	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 vest	compound
26	vest	vest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 clad	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 frock	punct
28	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 frock	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 frock	det
30	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 skin	compound
31	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 frock	compound
32	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 clad	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 calves	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 calves	det
35	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 calves	amod
36	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 frock	nmod
37	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 calves	amod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 decked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	deck	present · passive		the gaily Virgins			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	dress	participle					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	enter	may	none a virgin		there		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	clad	past		each	a scarlet vest	a skin frock to the brown calves obl	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 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 6