Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 124
Three nights he tarried--the brave Chaskè; Winged were the hours and they flitted away; On the wings of Wakândee [39] they silently flew, For Wiwâstè had found her a way to woo.
Who acts: Three nights, leaves, wings · What happens: tarry, wing, be, flit away, fly, find · To what, where: brave Chaskè, Winged hours, Wiwâstè
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 (Three nights, leaves, wings), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 nights | nummod |
| 2 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tarried | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tarried | nsubj |
| 4 | tarried | tarry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Chaskè | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Chaskè | det |
| 7 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Chaskè | amod |
| 8 | Chaskè | Chaskè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tarried | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 Winged | punct |
| 10 | Winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hours | amod |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hours | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hours | det |
| 13 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tarried | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flitted | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flitted | nsubj |
| 16 | flitted | flit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tarried | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 flitted | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 wings | punct |
| 19 | On | on | ADP | _ | 21 wings | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wings | det |
| 21 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 flew | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Wakândee | case |
| 23 | Wakândee | Wakândee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wings | nmod |
| 24 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 25 39 | punct |
| 25 | 39 | 39 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 Wakândee | appos |
| 26 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 25 39 | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 flew | nsubj |
| 28 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 29 flew | advmod |
| 29 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tarried | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 found | punct |
| 31 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 found | mark |
| 32 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 found | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 found | aux |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 flew | conj |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 found | obj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 way | det |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 found | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 woo | mark |
| 39 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 way | acl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tarried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tarry | past | Three nights | the brave Chaskè | star nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wing | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | the Winged hours | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | flit away | past | leaves = leaf | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fly | past | the wings of Wakândee | leaves = leaf nsubj; silently property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find | past · perfect · passive | Wiwâstè | Wakândee obj; a way obj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | woo | to-infinitive | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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