Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 11
They crouch, they leap, and their burning eyes Flash fierce in the light of the flaming fire, As fiercer and fiercer and higher and higher The rude, wild notes of their chant arise.
Who acts: pot, burning eyes, wild notes · What happens: crouch, leap, flash, arise, light, note · To what, where: light, flaming fire, chant
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 (pot, burning eyes, wild notes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 crouch | nsubj |
| 2 | crouch | crouch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 leap | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leap | nsubj |
| 5 | leap | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 crouch | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Flash | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Flash | cc |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eyes | compound |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Flash | nsubj |
| 11 | Flash | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 crouch | conj |
| 12 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Flash | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 light | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 light | det |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Flash | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 18 | flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fire | compound |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 light | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fiercer | punct |
| 21 | As | as | ADP | _ | 22 fiercer | case |
| 22 | fiercer | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 crouch | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fiercer | cc |
| 24 | fiercer | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 fiercer | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 higher | cc |
| 26 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 fiercer | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 higher | cc |
| 28 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 fiercer | conj |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rude | det |
| 30 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 higher | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 notes | punct |
| 32 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 notes | amod |
| 33 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 arise | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 chant | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 chant | nmod:poss |
| 36 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 notes | nmod |
| 37 | arise | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fiercer | parataxis |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crouch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crouch | present | pot | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leap | present | pot | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flash | present | pot's burning eyes | the light of the flaming fire | fierce property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location | |||
| 4 | arise | present | wild notes of pot's chant | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | light | the flaming fire | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | note | pot's chant | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | chant | pot | nom chant «communication transitive»: 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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