Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 22
Blood-red were the stripes on his swarthy cheek, And the necklace that girdled his brawny neck Was the polished claws of the great Mató [14] He grappled and slew in the northern snow.
Who acts: necklace, Proud · What happens: be, girdle, polish, grapple, slay · To what, where: red stripes, swarthy cheek, brawny neck, polished claws, northern snow
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 (necklace, Proud), 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 | Blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 red | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Blood | punct |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stripes | amod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stripes | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stripes | det |
| 6 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 cheek | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 9 | swarthy | swarthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cheek | amod |
| 10 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stripes | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 claws | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 claws | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 necklace | det |
| 14 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 claws | nsubj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 girdled | nsubj |
| 16 | girdled | girdle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 necklace | acl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neck | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brawny | brawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 neck | amod |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 girdled | obj |
| 20 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 claws | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 claws | det |
| 22 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 claws | amod |
| 23 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stripes | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Mató | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Mató | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Mató | amod |
| 27 | Mató | Mató | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 grappled | obl |
| 28 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 29 14 | punct |
| 29 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 Mató | appos |
| 30 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 29 14 | punct |
| 31 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 grappled | nsubj |
| 32 | grappled | grapple | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 claws | acl:relcl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 slew | cc |
| 34 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 grappled | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 snow | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 snow | det |
| 37 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 snow | amod |
| 38 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 slew | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stripes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the red stripes and the polished claws | Proud's swarthy cheek | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | girdle | past | the necklace | Proud's brawny neck | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | the necklace | the polished claws | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grapple | past | Proud | the polished claws not said here | of the great Mató | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme | |||
| 6 | slay | past | Proud not said here | the northern snow | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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