Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 125
Ah, little he cared for the bison-chase; For the red lilies bloomed on the fair maid's face; Ah, little he cared for the winds that blew, For Wiwâstè had found her a way to woo.
Who acts: star, winds · What happens: care, bloom, blow, find, woo · To what, where: red lilies, face, 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 (star, winds), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 3 little | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 cared | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cared | nsubj |
| 5 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 chase | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chase | det |
| 8 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chase | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 bison | punct |
| 10 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cared | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 lilies | punct |
| 12 | For | for | ADP | _ | 15 lilies | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lilies | det |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lilies | amod |
| 15 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cared | obl |
| 16 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lilies | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 face | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 maid | det |
| 19 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 maid | amod |
| 20 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 maid | case |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bloomed | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 cared | punct |
| 24 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 28 cared | discourse |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ah | punct |
| 26 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 cared | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cared | nsubj |
| 28 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cared | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 winds | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 winds | det |
| 31 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cared | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 blew | nsubj |
| 33 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 winds | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 found | punct |
| 35 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 found | mark |
| 36 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 found | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 found | aux |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 cared | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 found | obj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 way | det |
| 41 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 found | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 woo | mark |
| 43 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 way | acl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | past | star | for the bison chase; for the red lilies; little property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for chase=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bloom | participle | the red lilies not said here | the fair maid's face | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Location | ||||
| 3 | care | past | star | for the winds; little property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for wind=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blow | past | the winds | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | find | past · perfect · passive | Wiwâstè | maid obj; a way obj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | 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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