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Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 127

Ah, little he thought of the leagues of snow He trode on the trail of the buffalo; And little he recked of the hurricanes That swept the snow from the frozen plains And piled the banks of the Bloody River.

Who acts: star, That · What happens: think, trode, little, reck, sweep, freeze · To what, where: snow, trail, star, frozen plains, banks

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, That), 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

discoursepunctadvmodnsubjcasedetoblcasenmodnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctccconjobjxcompcasedetoblnsubjparataxisdetobjcasedetamodoblccconjdetobjcasedetcompoundnmodpunctrootAhINTJ,PUNCTlittleADVhePRONthoughtVERBofADPtheDETleaguesNOUNofADPsnowNOUNHePRONtrodeVERBonADPtheDETtrailNOUNofADPtheDETbuffaloNOUN;PUNCTAndCCONJlittleVERBhePRONreckedVERBofADPtheDEThurricanesNOUNThatPRONsweptVERBtheDETsnowNOUNfromADPtheDETfrozenVERBplainsNOUNAndCCONJpiledVERBtheDETbanksNOUNofADPtheDETBloodyPROPNRiverPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AhahINTJ_5 thoughtdiscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Ahpunct
3littlelittleADVDegree=Pos5 thoughtadvmod
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 thoughtnsubj
5thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6ofofADP_8 leaguescase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 leaguesdet
8leaguesleagueNOUNNumber=Plur5 thoughtobl
9ofofADP_10 snowcase
10snowsnowNOUNNumber=Sing8 leaguesnmod
11HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 trodensubj
12trodetrodeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 snowacl:relcl
13ononADP_15 trailcase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 traildet
15trailtrailNOUNNumber=Sing12 trodeobl
16ofofADP_18 buffalocase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 buffalodet
18buffalobuffaloNOUNNumber=Sing15 trailnmod
19;;PUNCT_21 littlepunct
20AndandCCONJ_21 littlecc
21littlelittleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 thoughtconj
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 littleobj
23reckedreckVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 littlexcomp
24ofofADP_26 hurricanescase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 hurricanesdet
26hurricaneshurricaneNOUNNumber=Plur23 reckedobl
27ThatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem28 sweptnsubj
28sweptsweepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 littleparataxis
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 snowdet
30snowsnowNOUNNumber=Sing28 sweptobj
31fromfromADP_34 plainscase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 plainsdet
33frozenfreezeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass34 plainsamod
34plainsplainNOUNNumber=Plur28 sweptobl
35AndandCCONJ_36 piledcc
36piledpileVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 sweptconj
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 banksdet
38banksbankNOUNNumber=Plur36 piledobj
39ofofADP_42 Rivercase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 Riverdet
41BloodyBloodyPROPNNumber=Sing42 Rivercompound
42RiverRiverPROPNNumber=Sing38 banksnmod
43..PUNCT_5 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: otherpaststarof the leagues of snow; little propertyvn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2trodepaststarsnow not said herethe trail of the buffalotree rules
3littlepaststar not said herestartree rules
4reckparticiplestar not said hereof the hurricanestree rules
5sweeppastThatthe snowthe frozen plainsvn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent snow=Theme from plain=Trajectory
6freezeparticiplevn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7pilepastThat not said herethe banks of the Bloody Rivervn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme bank=Destination

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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