Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 114
Then he spake again, and his voice was low, But I heard the answer of Little Crow: "Let it be as you will, for Wakâwa's tongue Has spoken no promise,--his lips are slow, And the love of a father is deep and strong."
Who acts: heart, voice, I, lips, love · What happens: speak, be, hear, let, answer, love · To what, where: answer, tongue, Little Crow, father · 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 (heart, voice, I, lips), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 spake | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spake | nsubj |
| 3 | spake | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 spake | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 low | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 low | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 low | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 low | cop |
| 10 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spake | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 12 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 heard | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spake | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 answer | det |
| 16 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Crow | case |
| 18 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Crow | amod |
| 19 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answer | nmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Let | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Let | punct |
| 22 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 spake | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 Let | obj |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 will | cop |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 will | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 will | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 Let | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 spoken | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 spoken | mark |
| 30 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Wakâwa | case |
| 32 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | Has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 spoken | aux |
| 34 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Let | parataxis |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 promise | det |
| 36 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 spoken | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 slow | punct |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 slow | punct |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 lips | nmod:poss |
| 40 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 slow | nsubj |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 slow | cop |
| 42 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 spoken | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 deep | punct |
| 44 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 deep | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 love | det |
| 46 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 deep | nsubj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 father | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 father | det |
| 49 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 love | nmod |
| 50 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 deep | cop |
| 51 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 slow | conj |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 strong | cc |
| 53 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 deep | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 Let | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | infinitive | heart | then; again | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | heart's voice | low property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | I | the answer of Little Crow | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | answer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Wakâwa's tongue | no promise obj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | heart's lips | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | the love of a father | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be in a quote | the love of a father not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | answer | Little Crow | nom answer «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 10 | love in a quote | a father | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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