Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 62

For his father sat at my father's feast, And he at Wakâwa's--an honored guest.

Who acts: father · What happens: sit, honor · To what, where: feast

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 (father), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 father	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 feast	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feast	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 father	case
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 guest	punct
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 guest	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 guest	nsubj
13	at	at	ADP	_	19 guest	case
14	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 guest	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Wakâwa	case
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 guest	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 guest	det
18	honored	honor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 guest	amod
19	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Bright's father			my father's feast		Wakâwa's honored guest Bright conj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at feast=Location
2	honor	participle							vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 62