Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 140

He promised to come with the robin in May, With the bridal gifts for the bridal day; And the fair Wiwâstè was happy-hearted, For Wakâwa promised the brave Chaskè.

Who acts: cheek, fair Wiwâstè, Wakâwa · What happens: promise, come, be · To what, where: brave Chaskè

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, fair Wiwâstè, Wakâwa), 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	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 come	mark
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 robin	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 robin	det
7	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 May	case
9	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 robin	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gifts	punct
11	With	with	ADP	_	14 gifts	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gifts	det
13	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gifts	amod
14	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 day	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gifts	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 hearted	punct
20	And	and	CCONJ	_	27 hearted	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Wiwâstè	det
22	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Wiwâstè	amod
23	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 hearted	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hearted	cop
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hearted	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 happy	punct
27	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 promised	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 promised	punct
29	For	for	SCONJ	_	31 promised	mark
30	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 promised	nsubj
31	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hearted	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Chaskè	det
33	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Chaskè	amod
34	Chaskè	Chaskè	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 promised	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	cheek			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	cheek not said here		with the robin in May; with the bridal gifts for the bridal day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the fair Wiwâstè		hearted property	tree rules
4	promise speech: promise	past	Wakâwa	the brave Chaskè		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent chaskè=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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 140

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 140