Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 115
Mâh-pí-ya Dúta, they scorn your love, But the false chief covets the warrior's gifts.
Who acts: lips, false chief, your, warrior · What happens: scorn, covet, love, gift · To what, where: love, gifts, Mâh
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 (lips, false chief, your, warrior), 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 | Mâh | Mâh | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mâh | punct |
| 3 | pí | pí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mâh | appos |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 pí | punct |
| 5 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Dúta | compound |
| 6 | Dúta | Dúta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mâh | list |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scorn | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 scorn | nsubj |
| 9 | scorn | scorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mâh | acl:relcl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 love | nmod:poss |
| 11 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scorn | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 covets | punct |
| 13 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 covets | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chief | det |
| 15 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chief | amod |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covets | nsubj |
| 17 | covets | covet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 scorn | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 warrior | det |
| 19 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 warrior | case |
| 21 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 covets | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mâh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scorn | present | lips = lip | your love | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | ||||
| 2 | covet | present | the false chief | the warrior's gifts | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gift=Theme | ||||
| 4 | love | your | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | gift | the warrior | nom gift «possession 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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