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Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 12

They cease, they sit, and the curling smoke Ascends again from their polished pipes, And upward curls from their swarthy lips To the God whose favor their hearts invoke.

Who acts: notes, curling smoke, upward curls · What happens: cease, sit, ascend, polish, invoke · To what, where: polished pipes, swarthy lips

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 (notes, curling smoke, upward curls), 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

nsubjpunctnsubjconjpunctccdetcompoundnsubjparataxisadvmodcasenmod:possamodoblpunctccamodnsubjcasenmod:possamodoblcasedetnmodnmod:possnsubjnmod:possnsubjconjpunctrootTheyPRONceaseVERB,PUNCTtheyPRONsitVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETcurlingNOUNsmokeNOUNAscendsVERBagainADVfromADPtheirPRONpolishedVERBpipesNOUN,PUNCTAndCCONJupwardADJcurlsNOUNfromADPtheirPRONswarthyADJlipsNOUNToADPtheDETGodPROPNwhosePRONfavorNOUNtheirPRONheartsNOUNinvokeVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 ceasensubj
2ceaseceaseVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3,,PUNCT_5 sitpunct
4theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 sitnsubj
5sitsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 ceaseconj
6,,PUNCT_11 Ascendspunct
7andandCCONJ_11 Ascendscc
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 smokedet
9curlingcurlingNOUNNumber=Sing10 smokecompound
10smokesmokeNOUNNumber=Sing11 Ascendsnsubj
11AscendsascendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 ceaseparataxis
12againagainADV_11 Ascendsadvmod
13fromfromADP_16 pipescase
14theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 pipesnmod:poss
15polishedpolishVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 pipesamod
16pipespipeNOUNNumber=Plur11 Ascendsobl
17,,PUNCT_32 invokepunct
18AndandCCONJ_32 invokecc
19upwardupwardADJDegree=Pos20 curlsamod
20curlscurlNOUNNumber=Plur32 invokensubj
21fromfromADP_24 lipscase
22theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 lipsnmod:poss
23swarthyswarthyADJDegree=Pos24 lipsamod
24lipslipNOUNNumber=Plur32 invokeobl
25TotoADP_27 Godcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 Goddet
27GodGodPROPNNumber=Sing24 lipsnmod
28whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Rel29 favornmod:poss
29favorfavorNOUNNumber=Sing32 invokensubj
30theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 heartsnmod:poss
31heartsheartNOUNNumber=Plur32 invokensubj
32invokeinvokeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 ceaseconj
33..PUNCT_2 ceasepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ceasepresentnotes = notevn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2sitpresentnotes = notevn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3ascendpresentthe curling smokenotes's polished pipesagainvn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pipe=Initial_Location
4polishparticiplevn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5invokepresentupward curlsnotes's swarthy lips to the Godfavor nsubj; notes's hearts nsubjtree 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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