Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 2
In the Tee [19] of the Council the Virgins light The Virgin-fire [20] for the feast to-night; For the Sons of Heyóka will celebrate The sacred dance to the giant great.
Who acts: Virgins, Sons · What happens: light, celebrate · To what, where: Virgin fire, Tee, sacred dance
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 (Virgins, Sons), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Tee | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tee | det |
| 3 | Tee | tee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 light | obl |
| 4 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 5 19 | punct |
| 5 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Tee | appos |
| 6 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 19 | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Council | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Council | det |
| 9 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tee | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Virgins | det |
| 11 | Virgins | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 light | nsubj |
| 12 | light | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 14 | Virgin | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fire | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Virgin | punct |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 light | obj |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 20 | punct |
| 18 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 fire | appos |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 20 | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 feast | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 feast | det |
| 22 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 light | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 night | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 to | punct |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 light | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 celebrate | punct |
| 27 | For | for | ADP | _ | 29 Sons | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Sons | det |
| 29 | Sons | Son | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 celebrate | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Heyóka | case |
| 31 | Heyóka | Heyóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sons | nmod |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 celebrate | aux |
| 33 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 light | conj |
| 34 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 dance | det |
| 35 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 dance | amod |
| 36 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 celebrate | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 great | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 great | det |
| 39 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 great | amod |
| 40 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 celebrate | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | present | the Virgins | the Virgin fire | the Tee of the Council | night | for the feast | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for feast=Beneficiary | |
| 2 | celebrate | future | the Sons of Heyóka | the sacred dance | to the giant great | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme |
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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