Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 19

They thrust their hands in the boiling pot; They swallow the bison meat steaming hot, Not a wince on their stoical faces bold.

Who acts: warriors, bison meat · What happens: thrust, swallow, steam · To what, where: hands, boiling pot, bison meat

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 (warriors, bison meat), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thrust	nsubj
2	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thrust	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 pot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pot	det
7	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pot	compound
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thrust	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 swallow	punct
10	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 swallow	nsubj
11	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thrust	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 meat	det
13	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meat	compound
14	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swallow	obj
15	steaming	steam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 meat	acl
16	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 steaming	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wince	punct
18	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 wince	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wince	det
20	wince	wince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swallow	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	25 bold	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bold	nmod:poss
23	stoical	stoical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 faces	amod
24	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bold	compound
25	bold	bold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wince	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thrust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	thrust	past	warriors = warrior	warriors's hands	the boiling pot		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	swallow	present	warriors = warrior	the bison meat		a wince on warriors's faces bold conj	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
3	steam	gerund	the bison meat not said here			hot property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 19