Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 126
Brown-bosomed she sat on her fox-robe dark, Her ear to the tales of the brave inclined, Or tripped from the tee like the song of a lark, And gathered her hair from the wanton wind.
Who acts: Wiwâstè, lark · What happens: bosom, sit, incline, trip, gather, sing · To what, where: fox robe, tee, hair, wanton wind
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 (Wiwâstè, lark), 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 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bosomed | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brown | punct |
| 3 | bosomed | bosom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sat | amod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 robe | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 robe | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 robe | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 fox | punct |
| 10 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 robe | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ear | punct |
| 13 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ear | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 robe | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 tales | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tales | det |
| 17 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sat | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 brave | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brave | det |
| 20 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tales | nmod |
| 21 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 brave | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tripped | punct |
| 23 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 tripped | cc |
| 24 | tripped | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 inclined | parataxis |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 tee | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tee | det |
| 27 | tee | tee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tripped | obl |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 song | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 song | det |
| 30 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tee | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 lark | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 lark | det |
| 33 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 song | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 gathered | punct |
| 35 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 gathered | cc |
| 36 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 tripped | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 hair | nmod:poss |
| 38 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gathered | obj |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 wind | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 wind | det |
| 41 | wanton | wanton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wind | compound |
| 42 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gathered | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bosom | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | sit | past | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè's fox robe and Wiwâstè's ear | to the tales of the brave | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on robe=Location | |||
| 3 | incline | participle | Wiwâstè not said here | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | trip | past | the tee like the song of a lark | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tee=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | gather | past | Wiwâstè's hair | the wanton wind | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hair=Theme from wind=Source | ||||
| 6 | sing | a lark | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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