Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 14
Great is Heyóka, the magical god; He can walk on the air; he can float on the flood.
Who acts: Heyóka · What happens: be, walk, float · To what, where: Great Heyóka, air, flood, magical god
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 (Heyóka), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Heyóka | amod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Heyóka | cop |
| 3 | Heyóka | Heyóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 god | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 god | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 god | det |
| 6 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 god | amod |
| 7 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 walk | punct |
| 9 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walk | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 walk | aux |
| 11 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 god | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walk | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 float | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 float | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 float | aux |
| 18 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 god | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 flood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flood | det |
| 21 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 float | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 god | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Great Heyóka | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | walk | can | Heyóka | the air | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | float | can | Heyóka | the flood | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flood=Trajectory |
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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