Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 18
The Giant commands In the boiling water to thrust our hands; And the warrior that scorneth the foe and fire Heyóka will crown with his hearts desire."
Who acts: Giant commands, warrior, Heyóka · What happens: boil, thrust, scorn, crown, desire · To what, where: hands, foe
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 (Giant commands, warrior, Heyóka), 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 | 3 commands | det |
| 2 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 commands | amod |
| 3 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 crown | nsubj |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 6 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 water | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commands | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 thrust | mark |
| 9 | thrust | thrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 water | acl |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thrust | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 warrior | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 warrior | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 warrior | det |
| 15 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 crown | nsubj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 scorneth | nsubj |
| 17 | scorneth | scorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 warrior | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foe | det |
| 19 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scorneth | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fire | cc |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 warrior | conj |
| 22 | Heyóka | Heyóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 crown | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 crown | aux |
| 24 | crown | crown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 desire | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 desire | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 desire | compound |
| 28 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 crown | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 crown | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 crown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | thrust | to-infinitive | the Giant commands in the boiling water not said here | our hands | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scorn | present | the warrior and fire | the foe | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | crown | future | the Giant commands in the boiling water | with Heyóka's hearts desire; the warrior and fire nsubj; Heyóka nsubj | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with desire=Theme | ||||
| 5 | desire | Heyóka | nom desire «feeling 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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