Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 110
And trust not the chief with the smiling eyes; His tongue is swift, but his words are lies; And the proud Mah-pí-ya will surely find That Wakâwa's promise is hollow wind.
Who acts: you, tongue, words, proud pí ya, promise, cloud · What happens: not trust, smile, be, find, word, promise · To what, where: chief, lies, hollow wind · 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 (you, tongue, words, proud pí ya), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 trust | cc |
| 2 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 trust | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trust | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eyes | det |
| 8 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chief | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 swift | punct |
| 11 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swift | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 swift | cop |
| 14 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 trust | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lies | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 lies | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 words | nmod:poss |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lies | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lies | cop |
| 20 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 swift | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 find | punct |
| 22 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 find | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ya | det |
| 24 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ya | amod |
| 25 | Mah | Mah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 pí | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Mah | punct |
| 27 | pí | pí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ya | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 pí | punct |
| 29 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 find | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 find | aux |
| 31 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 32 find | advmod |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 trust | conj |
| 33 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 Wakâwa | det |
| 34 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 promise | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Wakâwa | case |
| 36 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wind | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 wind | cop |
| 38 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 wind | amod |
| 39 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 find | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not trust | imperative | you not said here | the chief | with the smiling eyes | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient with eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | smile | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | cloud's tongue | swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | cloud's words | lies | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | future | the proud pí ya | surely property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | that Wakâwa's promise | hollow wind | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | word | cloud | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | promise | that Wakâwa | nom promise «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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