Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 109
There are fairer maidens than she, and proud Were their hearts to be loved by the brave Red Cloud.
Who acts: fairer maidens, brave Red Cloud · What happens: be, love · To what, where: proud hearts
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 (fairer maidens, brave Red Cloud), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 maidens | amod |
| 4 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 she | case |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 maidens | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 proud | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 proud | cc |
| 9 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hearts | amod |
| 10 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hearts | cop |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 loved | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 loved | aux:pass |
| 15 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hearts | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Cloud | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Cloud | det |
| 18 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Cloud | amod |
| 19 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Cloud | flat |
| 20 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 loved | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | fairer maidens than Wiwâstè | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | braves's proud hearts | braves = brave nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | love | to-infinitive · passive | the brave Red Cloud | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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