Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 10
A warrior's shout and a raven's caw-- Circling the pot and the blaming fire To the tom-tom's bray and the rude bassoon; Round and round to their heart's desire, And ever the same wild chant and tune-- A warrior's shout and a raven's caw-- "Ha-ha,--ha-ha,--ha-ha,--ha!"
Who acts: shout, warrior, raven, tom tom, heart · What happens: circle, blame, shout, caw, bray, desire · To what, where: pot, shout
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 (shout, warrior, raven, tom tom), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 warrior | det |
| 2 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shout | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 warrior | case |
| 4 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 caw | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 raven | det |
| 7 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caw | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 raven | case |
| 9 | caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shout | conj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 Circling | punct |
| 11 | Circling | circle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 shout | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pot | det |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Circling | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fire | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fire | det |
| 16 | blaming | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 fire | amod |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pot | conj |
| 18 | To | to | ADP | _ | 24 bray | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tom | det |
| 20 | tom | tom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tom | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 tom | punct |
| 22 | tom | tom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bray | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 tom | case |
| 24 | bray | bray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Circling | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bassoon | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bassoon | det |
| 27 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bassoon | amod |
| 28 | bassoon | bassoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bray | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 desire | punct |
| 30 | Round | round | ADV | _ | 37 desire | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 desire | cc |
| 32 | round | round | ADV | _ | 37 desire | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 desire | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 heart | nmod:poss |
| 35 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 desire | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 heart | case |
| 37 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shout | appos |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 chant | punct |
| 39 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 chant | cc |
| 40 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 44 chant | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 chant | det |
| 42 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 chant | amod |
| 43 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 chant | amod |
| 44 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 desire | conj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 tune | cc |
| 46 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 chant | conj |
| 47 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 51 shout | punct |
| 48 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 warrior | det |
| 49 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 shout | nmod:poss |
| 50 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 49 warrior | case |
| 51 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 desire | conj |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 caw | cc |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 raven | det |
| 54 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 caw | nmod:poss |
| 55 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 54 raven | case |
| 56 | caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 desire | conj |
| 57 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 74 ha | punct |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 74 ha | punct |
| 59 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 74 ha | discourse |
| 60 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 61 ha | punct |
| 61 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 74 ha | discourse |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 ha | punct |
| 63 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 74 ha | punct |
| 64 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 74 ha | discourse |
| 65 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 66 ha | punct |
| 66 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 74 ha | discourse |
| 67 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 ha | punct |
| 68 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 74 ha | punct |
| 69 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 74 ha | discourse |
| 70 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 71 ha | punct |
| 71 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 74 ha | discourse |
| 72 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 ha | punct |
| 73 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 74 ha | punct |
| 74 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 37 desire | discourse |
| 75 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 37 desire | punct |
| 76 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | circle | gerund | a warrior's shout and a raven's caw not said here | the pot and the blaming fire | to the tom tom's bray and the rude bassoon | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pot=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | blame | gerund | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | shout | a warrior | nom shout «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | caw | a raven | nom caw «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | bray | the tom tom | nom bray «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | desire | warriors's heart | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | shout | a warrior | nom shout «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | caw | a raven | nom caw «event 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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