Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 145
The skéskas [46] fly and the melted snows In lakelets lie on the dimpled prairie.
Who acts: skéskas · What happens: melt, lie, dimple · To what, where: dimpled prairie
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 (skéskas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 skéskas | det |
| 2 | skéskas | skéska | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 fly | punct |
| 4 | 46 | 46 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 fly | nummod |
| 5 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 4 46 | punct |
| 6 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 skéskas | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 snows | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 snows | det |
| 9 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 snows | amod |
| 10 | snows | snow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fly | conj |
| 11 | In | in | ADP | _ | 12 lakelets | case |
| 12 | lakelets | lakelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 snows | nmod |
| 13 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 prairie | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prairie | det |
| 16 | dimpled | dimple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 prairie | amod |
| 17 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lie | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | lie | present | the skéskas 46 fly and the melted snows in lakelets | the dimpled prairie | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on prairie=Location | ||||
| 3 | dimple | participle | tree rules |
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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