Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 150
Wiwâstè waits in the lonely tee, Has her fair face fled from his memory?
Who acts: Wiwâstè, fair face · What happens: wait, have, flee · To what, where: lonely tee, memory
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 (Wiwâstè, fair face), 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 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 waits | nsubj |
| 2 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 tee | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tee | det |
| 5 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tee | amod |
| 6 | tee | tee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waits | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Has | punct |
| 8 | Has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 waits | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 face | amod |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fled | nsubj |
| 12 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Has | ccomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 memory | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 memory | nmod:poss |
| 15 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fled | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 waits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | Wiwâstè | the lonely tee | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tee=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Wiwâstè not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | flee | past | Wiwâstè's fair face | Chaskè's memory | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from memory=Initial_Location |
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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