Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 131
Wakâwa marked, and the lilies fair On her round cheeks spread to her raven hair.
Who acts: Wakâwa, lilies, round cheeks · What happens: mark, fair, spread
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 (Wakâwa, lilies, round cheeks), 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 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 marked | nsubj |
| 2 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fair | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fair | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lilies | det |
| 6 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fair | nsubj |
| 7 | fair | fair | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 marked | conj |
| 8 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 12 spread | mark |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 10 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cheeks | amod |
| 11 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spread | nsubj |
| 12 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fair | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 hair | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | raven | raven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hair | amod |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spread | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | Wakâwa | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fair | present | the lilies | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spread | past | Wiwâstè's round cheeks | to Wiwâstè's raven hair | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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