Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 15

He's a worker of magic and wonderful wise; He cries when he laughs and he laughs when he cries; He sweats when he's cold, and he shivers when hot, And the water is cold in his boiling pot.

Who acts: Heyóka, water · What happens: be, cry, laugh, sweat, shiver · To what, where: worker, boiling pot

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, water), 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	4 worker	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worker	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 worker	det
4	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 magic	case
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worker	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wise	cc
8	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wise	amod
9	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 magic	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 cries	punct
11	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cries	nsubj
12	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worker	parataxis
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 laughs	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laughs	nsubj
15	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cries	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 laughs	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 laughs	nsubj
18	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 laughs	conj
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 cries	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cries	nsubj
21	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 laughs	advcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sweats	punct
23	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sweats	nsubj
24	sweats	sweat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cries	conj
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 cold	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cold	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 cold	cop
28	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sweats	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 shivers	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 shivers	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 shivers	nsubj
32	shivers	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sweats	conj
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 hot	advmod
34	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 shivers	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 cold	punct
36	And	and	CCONJ	_	40 cold	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 water	det
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cold	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 cold	cop
40	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sweats	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 pot	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 pot	nmod:poss
43	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 pot	compound
44	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cold	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worker	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Heyóka	a worker		of magic	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	present	Heyóka				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	laugh	present	Heyóka				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	laugh	present	Heyóka				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cry speech: express	present	Heyóka				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sweat	present	Heyóka				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	Heyóka			cold property	tree rules
8	shiver	present	Heyóka			hot property	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is	present	the water		Heyóka's boiling pot	cold property	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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 15