Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 130
When he spoke with Wakâwa her sidelong eyes Sought the handsome chief in his hunter-guise.
Who acts: star, sidelong eyes · What happens: speak, seek · To what, where: handsome chief, hunter guise · 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 (star, sidelong eyes), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Sought | advcl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 Wakâwa | case |
| 5 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sidelong | sidelong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eyes | amod |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Sought | nsubj |
| 9 | Sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 11 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chief | amod |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Sought | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 guise | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 guise | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 guise | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 hunter | punct |
| 17 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chief | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | star | with Wakâwa | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wakâwa=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | Wiwâstè's sidelong eyes | the handsome chief | star's hunter guise | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chief=Theme in guise=Location |
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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