Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 118
Will the warrior sit like a girl bereft, When fairer and truer than she are left That love Red Cloud as they love their life?
Who acts: warrior, That, warriors · What happens: sit, leave, love · To what, where: bird, Red Cloud, life
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 (warrior, That, warriors), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sit | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 warrior | det |
| 3 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | nsubj |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 girl | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | obl |
| 8 | bereft | bereft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sit | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fairer | punct |
| 10 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 fairer | advmod |
| 11 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 sit | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 truer | cc |
| 13 | truer | true | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 fairer | conj |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 left | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 left | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 left | aux:pass |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fairer | advcl |
| 18 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 love | nsubj |
| 19 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 left | parataxis |
| 20 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Cloud | flat |
| 21 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 love | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 love | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 love | nsubj |
| 24 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 love | advcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 love | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | future | the warrior | like a girl; bereft property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | present · passive | bird | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | love | present | That | Red Cloud | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | love | present | warriors = warrior | warriors's life | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus |
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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