Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 13
Then tall Wakâwa arose and said: "Brave warriors, listen, and give due heed.
Who acts: tall Wakâwa, Brave warriors · What happens: arise, say, listen, give · To what, where: due heed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tall Wakâwa, Brave warriors), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 arose | advmod |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wakâwa | amod |
| 3 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | nsubj |
| 4 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 warriors | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 warriors | punct |
| 9 | Brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 warriors | amod |
| 10 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 listen | punct |
| 12 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 warriors | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 arose | conj |
| 16 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 heed | amod |
| 17 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | tall Wakâwa | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | tall Wakâwa not said here | Brave warriors ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | listen in a quote | infinitive | Brave warriors not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | tall Wakâwa not said here | due heed | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
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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