--- title: Round their low, smouldering fire, feigning sleep, lie the watchful… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Round their low, smouldering fire, feigning sleep, lie the watchful and wily Dakotas; But DuLuth and his _voyageurs_ heap their fire that shall blaze till the morning, Ere they lay themselves snugly to rest, with their guns by their side on the blankets, As if there were none to molest but the raven --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/102/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [The Feast of the Virgins., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/) / 102 # Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 102 Round their low, smouldering fire, feigning sleep, lie the watchful and wily Dakotas; But DuLuth and his \_voyageurs\_ heap their fire that shall blaze till the morning, Ere they lay themselves snugly to rest, with their guns by their side on the blankets, As if there were none to molest but the ravening beasts of the forest. **Who acts:** \_ voyageurs, fire, DuLuth, none, Algonkins · **What happens:** smoulder, feign, lie, heap, blaze, rest · **To what, where:** fire, sleep, watchful Dakotas, Algonkins This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_ voyageurs, fire, DuLuth, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:12:103 # text = Round their low, smouldering fire, feigning sleep, lie the watchful and wily Dakotas; But DuLuth and his _voyageurs_ heap their fire that shall blaze till the morning, Ere they lay themselves snugly to rest, with their guns by their side on the blankets, As if there were none to molest but the ravening beasts of the forest. 1 Round round ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 smouldering smoulder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 6 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 feigning feign VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 9 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 watchful watchful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 wily wily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 Dakotas dakota NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 But but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 DuLuth DuLuth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 _ _ ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 voyageurs voyageur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 _ _ PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 heap heap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 blaze blaze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 till till ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Ere Ere PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 38 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 37 obj _ _ 39 snugly snugly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 guns gun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 46 by by ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 49 on on ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 blankets blanket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 As as SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 54 if if SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 55 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 56 expl _ _ 56 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 57 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 56 nsubj _ _ 58 to to PART TO _ 59 mark _ _ 59 molest molest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 57 acl _ _ 60 but but CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 62 ravening raven VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 63 amod _ _ 63 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 conj _ _ 64 of of ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smoulder** | gerund | | fire | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feign** | gerund | | sleep | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lie** | infinitive | | the watchful Dakotas | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dakota=Theme | | 4 | **heap** | infinitive | Duluth's \_ voyageurs *not said here* | Algonkins's fire | | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | | 5 | **blaze** | shall | Algonkins's fire | | | | morning | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **lie** | past | DuLuth and Duluth's \_ voyageurs | Algonkins *= algonkin* | | | | Ere *nsubj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme | | 7 | **rest** | to-infinitive | DuLuth and Duluth's \_ voyageurs *not said here* | | | | | with Algonkins's guns by Algonkins's side on the blankets; snugly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | none the ravening beasts of the forest | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **molest** | to-infinitive | none the ravening beasts of the forest *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 10 | **raven** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **fire** | | Algonkins *= algonkin* | | | | | | nom fire «event transitive»: 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. - ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/101/) - next →: [The Feast of the Virgins., p…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/13/1/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/)