Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 143
Birds of a feather will flock together,-- 'Tis an adage old,--it is nature's law, And sure as the pole will the needle draw, The fierce Red Cloud with the flaunting feather, Will follow the finger of Hârpstinà.
Who acts: Birds, pole · What happens: flock together, be, draw, flaunt, follow · To what, where: law, fierce Red Cloud, finger
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 (Birds, pole), 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 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flock | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 feather | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 feather | det |
| 4 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Birds | nmod |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 flock | aux |
| 6 | flock | flock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 flock | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tis | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tis | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tis | punct |
| 11 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flock | parataxis |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 adage | det |
| 13 | adage | adage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Tis | appos |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 adage | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tis | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 law | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 law | expl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 law | cop |
| 19 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 law | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 nature | case |
| 21 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flock | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sure | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sure | cc |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flock | conj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 draw | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pole | det |
| 27 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 draw | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 draw | aux |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 draw | det |
| 30 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 draw | compound |
| 31 | draw | draw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sure | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Cloud | punct |
| 33 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Cloud | det |
| 34 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Cloud | amod |
| 35 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Cloud | flat |
| 36 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 draw | nmod |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 feather | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 feather | det |
| 39 | flaunting | flaunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 feather | amod |
| 40 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Cloud | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 follow | punct |
| 42 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 follow | aux |
| 43 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 flock | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 finger | det |
| 45 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 follow | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Hârpstinà | case |
| 47 | Hârpstinà | Hârpstinà | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 finger | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flock together | future | Birds of a feather | Tis parataxis; together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Birds of a feather not said here | nature's law | nature nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | draw | future | the pole | the fierce Red Cloud with the flaunting feather | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | flaunt | gerund | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | follow | future | Birds of a feather not said here | the finger of Hârpstinà | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=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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