Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 108
Does the tall Red Cloud for the false one sigh?
What happens: do · To what, where: tall Red Cloud
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: 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 | Does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Cloud | det |
| 3 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Cloud | amod |
| 4 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Cloud | flat |
| 5 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Does | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sigh | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sigh | det |
| 8 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sigh | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sigh | compound |
| 10 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Does | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the tall Red Cloud | for the false one sigh | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Eventuality |
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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