Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 20
Apè-dúta ruled the teepee--all Wanâta's smiles were hers; When the lodge was wrapped in sleep a star [c] beheld the mother's tears.
Who acts: Apè dúta, smiles, star, Wanâta · What happens: rule, be, wrap, behold, smile · To what, where: teepee, honor, lodge, sleep, tears
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apè dúta, smiles, star, Wanâta), 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 | Apè | Apè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dúta | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Apè | punct |
| 3 | dúta | dúta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ruled | nsubj |
| 4 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 teepee | det |
| 6 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ruled | obj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 hers | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 Wanâta | det |
| 9 | Wanâta | Wanâta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 smiles | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Wanâta | case |
| 11 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hers | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hers | cop |
| 13 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 teepee | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 wrapped | punct |
| 15 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 wrapped | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lodge | det |
| 17 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 19 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ruled | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 sleep | case |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wrapped | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 star | det |
| 23 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beheld | nsubj |
| 24 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 25 c | punct |
| 25 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 star | appos |
| 26 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 25 c | punct |
| 27 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wrapped | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mother | det |
| 29 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tears | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 mother | case |
| 31 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 beheld | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | Apè dúta | the teepee | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teepee=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | all Wanâta's smiles | honor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wrap | past · passive | the lodge | sleep | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in sleep=Destination | ||||
| 4 | behold | past | a star | the mother's tears | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | smile | all Wanâta | nom smile «communication 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.
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