Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 44

She spoke to the chief of the tall Hóhé: "Wiwâstè requests that the brave Chaskè Will abide with his band and his coming delay 'Till the moon when the strawberries are ripe and red, And then will the chief and Wiwâstè wed-- When the Feast of the Virgins is past," she said.

Who acts: Kapóza, Wiwâstè, brave Chaskè, strawberries, Feast · What happens: speak, request, abide, come, be, say · To what, where: chief · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Kapóza, Wiwâstè, brave Chaskè, strawberries), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 chief	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chief	det
5	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Hóhé	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Hóhé	det
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Hóhé	amod
9	Hóhé	Hóhé	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chief	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 requests	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 requests	punct
12	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 requests	nsubj
13	requests	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 abide	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Chaskè	det
16	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Chaskè	amod
17	Chaskè	Chaskè	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 abide	nsubj
18	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 abide	aux
19	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 requests	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 band	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 band	nmod:poss
22	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 abide	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 delay	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 delay	nmod:poss
25	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 delay	amod
26	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 band	conj
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 delay	punct
28	Till	till	ADP	_	30 moon	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 moon	det
30	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 abide	obl
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 ripe	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 strawberries	det
33	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 ripe	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 ripe	cop
35	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 abide	advcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 red	cc
37	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ripe	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 chief	punct
39	And	and	CCONJ	_	43 chief	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 chief	advmod
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 chief	aux
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 chief	det
43	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 requests	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 Wiwâstè	cc
45	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 chief	conj
46	wed	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Wiwâstè	flat
47	--	--	PUNCT	_	55 past	punct
48	When	when	SCONJ	_	55 past	mark
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Feast	det
50	Feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 past	nsubj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 Virgins	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Virgins	det
53	Virgins	Virgin	PROPN	Number=Plur	50 Feast	nmod
54	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 past	cop
55	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 chief	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 said	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 said	punct
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 said	nsubj
59	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 requests	parataxis
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Kapóza			to the chief of the tall Hóhé	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to chief=Co-Agent
2	request in a quote	present	Wiwâstè	the chief and Wiwâstè			vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	abide in a quote	future	the brave Chaskè		till the moon	with Chaskè's band and Chaskè's coming delay	tree rules
4	come in a quote	gerund					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	the strawberries			ripe property	tree rules
6	be in a quote		the strawberries not said here				tree rules
7	is in a quote	present	the Feast of the Virgins			past property	tree rules
8	say speech: assert	past	Kapóza				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 2, sentence 44

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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 44