Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 1

The night-sun [17] sails in his gold canoe, The spirits [18] walk in the realms of air With their glowing faces and flaming hair, And the shrill, chill winds o'er the prairies blow.

Who acts: night sun, spirits, shrill chill winds · What happens: sail, walk, glow, flame, blow · To what, where: gold canoe, realms, faces

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night sun, spirits, shrill chill winds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sun	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sails	nsubj
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 17	punct
6	17	17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 sun	appos
7	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 17	punct
8	sails	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 canoe	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 canoe	nmod:poss
11	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 canoe	amod
12	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sails	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spirits	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spirits	det
15	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 walk	nsubj
16	[	[	PUNCT	_	17 18	punct
17	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 walk	nsubj
18	]	]	PUNCT	_	17 18	punct
19	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sails	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 realms	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 realms	det
22	realms	realm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 walk	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 air	case
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 realms	nmod
25	With	with	ADP	_	31 hair	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hair	nmod:poss
27	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 hair	csubj
28	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 glowing	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 flaming	cc
30	flaming	flame	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 hair	amod
31	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walk	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 blow	punct
33	And	and	CCONJ	_	42 blow	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 winds	det
35	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 winds	amod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 shrill	punct
37	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 winds	amod
38	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 blow	nsubj
39	o'er	o'er	ADP	_	41 prairies	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 prairies	det
41	prairies	prairie	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 winds	nmod
42	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sails	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sails	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sail	present	the night sun		sun's gold canoe		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	infinitive	the spirits		the realms of air	with spirits's flaming hair; 18 nsubj	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in realm=Trajectory
3	glow	gerund		faces			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme
4	flame	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	blow	present	the shrill chill winds o'er the prairies				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 1