Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 135
Sweet are the lips of his love to the lover,-- Sweet as new wine in a golden chalice, From the Tajo's [44] slopes or the hills beyond; And blindly he sips from his loved one's lips, In lodge or palace the wide world over, The maddening honey of Trebizond.
Who acts: lover · What happens: be, sip, love, madden · To what, where: Sweet lips
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 (lover), 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 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lips | amod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lips | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lips | det |
| 4 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 love | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 love | nmod:poss |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lips | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 lover | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lover | det |
| 10 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 love | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sweet | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sweet | punct |
| 13 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 love | parataxis |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 wine | case |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wine | amod |
| 16 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Sweet | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 chalice | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 chalice | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chalice | amod |
| 20 | chalice | chalice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wine | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 slopes | punct |
| 22 | From | from | ADP | _ | 29 slopes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Tajo | det |
| 24 | Tajo | Tajo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 slopes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Tajo | case |
| 26 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 27 44 | punct |
| 27 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 slopes | nummod |
| 28 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 27 44 | punct |
| 29 | slopes | slope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Sweet | obl |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 hills | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hills | det |
| 32 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 slopes | conj |
| 33 | beyond | beyond | ADV | _ | 32 hills | advmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 sips | punct |
| 35 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 sips | cc |
| 36 | blindly | blindly | ADV | _ | 38 sips | advmod |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 sips | nsubj |
| 38 | sips | sip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lips | parataxis |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 lips | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 one | nmod:poss |
| 41 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 one | amod |
| 42 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 lips | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 one | case |
| 44 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 sips | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 lodge | punct |
| 46 | In | in | ADP | _ | 47 lodge | case |
| 47 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sips | obl |
| 48 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 palace | cc |
| 49 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 lodge | conj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 world | det |
| 51 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 world | amod |
| 52 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 lodge | nmod |
| 53 | over | over | ADV | _ | 38 sips | advmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 honey | punct |
| 55 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 honey | det |
| 56 | maddening | madden | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 57 honey | amod |
| 57 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sips | conj |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 Trebizond | case |
| 59 | Trebizond | Trebizond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 honey | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lips | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Sweet lips | of lover's love to the lover | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sip | present | lover | in lodge the wide world or palace; from lover's loved one's lips; the maddening honey of Trebizond conj; blindly, over property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent from lip=Patient | ||||
| 3 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | madden | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | love | lover | to the lover | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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