Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 45

Wiwâstè's wish was her lover's law; And so his coming the chief delayed Till the mid-May blossoms should bloom and fade,-- But the lying runner was Hârpstinà.

Who acts: wish, Chaskè, mid-May blossoms, lying runner, Wiwâstè · What happens: be, come, delay, bloom, fade, lie · To what, where: law, chief, Hârpstinà

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 (wish, Chaskè, mid-May blossoms, lying runner), 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	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wish	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Wiwâstè	case
3	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 law	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 law	cop
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lover	nmod:poss
6	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 law	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 lover	case
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 delayed	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 coming	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 coming	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 coming	nsubj
13	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 delayed	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chief	det
15	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coming	obj
16	delayed	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 law	conj
17	Till	till	SCONJ	_	22 bloom	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 blossoms	det
19	mid-May	mid-May	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 blossoms	compound
20	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bloom	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bloom	aux
22	bloom	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 delayed	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fade	cc
24	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bloom	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Hârpstinà	punct
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 Hârpstinà	punct
27	But	but	CCONJ	_	32 Hârpstinà	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 runner	det
29	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 runner	amod
30	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Hârpstinà	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Hârpstinà	cop
32	Hârpstinà	Hârpstinà	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fade	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 law	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Wiwâstè's wish	Wiwâstè's lover's law	Wiwâstè's lover nmod:poss	tree rules
2	come	gerund	Chaskè	the chief		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chief=Theme
3	delay	past	Wiwâstè's wish not said here			vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	bloom	should	the mid-May blossoms			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fade	infinitive	the mid-May blossoms not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	lie	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	the lying runner	Hârpstinà		tree rules
8	wish		Wiwâstè			nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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 45

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Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 45