Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 101
Away he strode with a sullen frown, And alone in his teepee he sat him down.
Who acts: Fierce, teepee · What happens: stride, sit down · To what, where: Fierce
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 (Fierce, teepee), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 3 strode | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 strode | nsubj |
| 3 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 frown | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 frown | det |
| 6 | sullen | sullen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 frown | amod |
| 7 | frown | frown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strode | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sat | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sat | cc |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 teepee | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 teepee | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 13 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strode | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sat | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 sat | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride | past | Fierce | with a sullen frown; away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | Fierce's teepee | Fierce | tree rules |
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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