Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 39

Up galloped the chief of the band, and lo-- The clutched knife dropped from her trembling hand; She uttered a cry and she swooned away; For there; on his steed in the blaze of day, On the boundless prairie, so far away, With his burnished lance and his feathers gay, Sat the manly form of her own Chaskè!

Who acts: Up, clutched knife, day · What happens: gallop, clutch, drop, tremble, utter, swoon away · To what, where: chief, trembling hand, cry, own Chaskè

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Up, clutched knife, day), 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	Up	Up	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 galloped	nsubj
2	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chief	det
4	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 galloped	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 band	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 band	det
7	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chief	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dropped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dropped	cc
10	lo	lo	INTJ	_	15 dropped	discourse
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 lo	punct
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 knife	det
13	clutched	clutch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 knife	amod
14	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dropped	nsubj
15	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 galloped	parataxis
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 hand	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
18	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 hand	amod
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dropped	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 uttered	punct
21	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 uttered	nsubj
22	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 galloped	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cry	det
24	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 uttered	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 swooned	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 swooned	nsubj
27	swooned	swoon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 uttered	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 swooned	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 there	punct
30	For	for	ADP	_	31 there	case
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 galloped	advmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 steed	punct
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 steed	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 steed	nmod:poss
35	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 galloped	parataxis
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 blaze	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 blaze	det
38	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 steed	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 day	case
40	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 blaze	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 prairie	punct
42	On	on	ADP	_	45 prairie	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 prairie	det
44	boundless	boundless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 prairie	amod
45	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 steed	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 away	punct
47	so	so	ADV	_	49 away	advmod
48	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 away	advmod
49	away	away	ADV	_	35 steed	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 lance	punct
51	With	with	ADP	_	54 lance	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 lance	nmod:poss
53	burnished	burnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 lance	amod
54	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 steed	conj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 feathers	cc
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 feathers	nmod:poss
57	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 lance	conj
58	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 lance	amod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 Sat	punct
60	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 steed	appos
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 form	det
62	manly	manly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 form	amod
63	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 Sat	appos
64	of	of	ADP	_	67 Chaskè	case
65	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 Chaskè	nmod:poss
66	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 Chaskè	amod
67	Chaskè	Chaskè	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 form	nmod
68	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 galloped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gallop	past	Up	the chief of the band		cry's steed in the blaze of day and the boundless prairie and cry's burnished lance and cry's feathers parataxis	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Agent
2	clutch	participle					vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	drop	past	the clutched knife		Up's trembling hand		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from hand=Trajectory
4	tremble	gerund					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	utter speech: other	past	Up	a cry			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic
6	swoon away	past	Up			away property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	burnish	participle					tree rules
8	blaze		day				nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent
9	form			Up's own Chaskè			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 2, sentence 39

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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 39