Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 71
Heyóka is universally feared and reverenced by the Dakotas, but so severe is the ordeal that the Heyóka Wacípee (the dance to Heyóka) is now rarely celebrated.
Who acts: severe ordeal · What happens: fear, reverence, be, celebrate · To what, where: Heyóka, severe ordeal, Heyóka Wacípee
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (severe ordeal), 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 | Heyóka | Heyóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 feared | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feared | aux:pass |
| 3 | universally | universally | ADV | _ | 4 feared | advmod |
| 4 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 reverenced | cc |
| 6 | reverenced | reverence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 feared | conj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Dakotas | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dakotas | det |
| 9 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reverenced | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ordeal | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 ordeal | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 severe | advmod |
| 13 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ordeal | amod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ordeal | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ordeal | det |
| 16 | ordeal | ordeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feared | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 celebrated | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Wacípee | det |
| 19 | Heyóka | Heyóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Wacípee | compound |
| 20 | Wacípee | Wacípee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 dance | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dance | det |
| 23 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Wacípee | appos |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Heyóka | case |
| 25 | Heyóka | Heyóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 dance | nmod |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 dance | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 celebrated | advmod |
| 29 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 30 celebrated | advmod |
| 30 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ordeal | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present · passive | Heyóka | universally property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | reverence | participle | by the Dakotas | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the severe ordeal | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | celebrate | present · passive | the severe ordeal not said here | the Heyóka Wacípee | now | rarely property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/20/71/