Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 16
He hides in the earth and he walks in disguise, But he loves the brave and their sacrifice.
Who acts: Heyóka, pot · What happens: hide, walk, love, sacrifice · To what, where: earth, disguise, brave
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, pot), 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 hides | nsubj |
| 2 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 earth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 earth | det |
| 5 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hides | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 walks | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 walks | nsubj |
| 8 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hides | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 disguise | case |
| 10 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walks | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loves | punct |
| 12 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 loves | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 loves | nsubj |
| 14 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hides | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 brave | det |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 loves | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sacrifice | cc |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sacrifice | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 loves | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | Heyóka | the earth | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in earth=Location | ||||
| 2 | walk | present | Heyóka | disguise | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in disguise=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | love | present | Heyóka | the brave | pot's sacrifice conj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brave=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | sacrifice | pot | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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