Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 104
Softly she spoke to the sullen brave: "Mah-pí-ya Dúta,--his face is sad.
Who acts: Hârpstinà, face · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: Dúta · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hârpstinà, face), 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 | Softly | softly | ADV | _ | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 brave | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brave | det |
| 6 | sullen | sullen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brave | amod |
| 7 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spoke | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Dúta | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Dúta | punct |
| 10 | Mah | Mah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ya | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Mah | punct |
| 12 | pí | pí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ya | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 pí | punct |
| 14 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Dúta | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Dúta | Dúta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sad | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 sad | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sad | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sad | cop |
| 21 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Dúta | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Hârpstinà | Dúta Mah pí ya | to the sullen brave; softly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to brave=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Dúta's face | sad property | 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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