Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 116

False to his promise the fox will prove, And fickle as snow in Wo-kâ-da-weè, [37] That slips into brooks when the gray cloud lifts, Or the red sun looks through the ragged rifts.

Who acts: fox, That, red sun, Mâh · What happens: prove, slip, look, promise · To what, where: kâ da weè, gray cloud lifts, brooks

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 (fox, That, red sun, Mâh), 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	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 prove	amod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 promise	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 promise	nmod:poss
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prove	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prove	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 prove	aux
8	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fickle	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 fickle	cc
11	fickle	fickle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 prove	xcomp
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 snow	case
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fickle	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Wo	case
15	Wo	Wo	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 weè	obl
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Wo	punct
17	kâ	kâ	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weè	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 kâ	punct
19	da	da	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weè	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 weè	punct
21	weè	weè	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prove	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 37	punct
23	[	[	PUNCT	_	24 37	punct
24	37	37	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 weè	appos
25	]	]	PUNCT	_	24 37	punct
26	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 slips	nsubj
27	slips	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 prove	ccomp
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 brooks	case
29	brooks	brook	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 slips	obl
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 lifts	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lifts	det
32	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lifts	amod
33	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lifts	compound
34	lifts	lift	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 slips	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 looks	punct
36	Or	or	CCONJ	_	40 looks	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sun	det
38	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sun	amod
39	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 looks	nsubj
40	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 lifts	parataxis
41	through	through	ADP	_	44 rifts	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 rifts	det
43	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 rifts	amod
44	rifts	rift	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 looks	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 prove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prove	future	the fox	kâ da weè in Wo		to Mâh's promise; fickle property	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to promise=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	slip	present	That	the gray cloud lifts	brooks		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	look	present	the red sun			through the ragged rifts	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through rift=Theme
4	promise		Mâh				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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 116

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 116