Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 138

He would face the storm,--he would death encounter The darling prize of his heart to gain.

Who acts: cheek · What happens: face, encounter, gain · To what, where: storm, darling prize

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 (cheek), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 face	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 face	aux
3	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 storm	det
5	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 face	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 encounter	punct
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 encounter	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 encounter	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 encounter	aux
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 encounter	compound
11	encounter	encounter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 face	conj
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prize	det
13	darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 prize	amod
14	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 encounter	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 heart	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 heart	nmod:poss
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prize	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 gain	mark
19	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 encounter	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 face	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	face	would	cheek	the storm		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent storm=Destination
2	encounter	would	cheek	the darling prize of cheek's heart	death compound	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prize=Stimulus
3	gain	to-infinitive	cheek not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 138

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 138