Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 119
Mah-pí-ya Dúta will listen to me I love him well,--I have loved him long: A woman is weak, but a warrior is strong, And a lovelorn brave is a scorn to see.
Who acts: Mah pí ya, I, woman, warrior, lovelorn · What happens: listen, love, be, see · To what, where: me, Dúta, scorn
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, I, woman, 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 | 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 love | nsubj |
| 12 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 listen | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 love | obj |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 love | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 loved | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 loved | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 loved | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 loved | aux |
| 19 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 love | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 loved | obj |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 loved | advmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 weak | punct |
| 23 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 woman | det |
| 24 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 weak | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 weak | cop |
| 26 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 listen | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 strong | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 strong | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 warrior | det |
| 30 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 strong | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 strong | cop |
| 32 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 weak | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 scorn | punct |
| 34 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 scorn | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 lovelorn | det |
| 36 | lovelorn | lovelorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 scorn | nsubj |
| 37 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 lovelorn | amod |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 scorn | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 scorn | det |
| 40 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 weak | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 see | mark |
| 42 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 scorn | acl |
| 43 | . | . | 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 | love | present | I | Dúta | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | love | present · perfect | I | Dúta | long property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | present | a woman | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | a warrior | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | a lovelorn | a scorn | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | a woman not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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