Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 117
Mah-pí-ya Dúta will listen to me There are fairer birds in the bush than she, And the fairest would gladly be Red Cloud's wife.
Who acts: Mah pí ya, fairer birds, fairest · What happens: listen, be · To what, where: me, bush, Red wife
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 (Mah pí ya, fairer birds, fairest), 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 | Mah | Mah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ya | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mah | punct |
| 3 | pí | pí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ya | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 pí | punct |
| 5 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 listen | nsubj |
| 6 | Dúta | Dúta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 listen | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 listen | aux |
| 8 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 listen | obl |
| 11 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 listen | parataxis |
| 13 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 birds | amod |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 are | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 bush | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bush | det |
| 17 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 are | obl |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 she | case |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bush | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wife | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wife | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fairest | det |
| 23 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 wife | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 wife | aux |
| 25 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 30 wife | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 wife | cop |
| 27 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 wife | amod |
| 28 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 wife | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Cloud | case |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 are | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | future | Mah pí ya | me | Dúta nsubj | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | |||
| 2 | does | present | fairer birds | the bush than ya; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bush=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | would | the fairest | Cloud's Red wife | Cloud nmod:poss; gladly property | tree rules |
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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