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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

compoundpunctamodcopdetcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctccdetnsubjnsubjacl:relclnmod:possamodobjcopdetamodconjcasedetamodoblpunctappospunctnsubjacl:relclccconjcasedetamodoblpunctrootBloodNOUN-PUNCTredADJwereAUXtheDETstripesNOUNonADPhisPRONswarthyADJcheekNOUN,PUNCTAndCCONJtheDETnecklaceNOUNthatPRONgirdledVERBhisPRONbrawnyADJneckNOUNWasAUXtheDETpolishedVERBclawsNOUNofADPtheDETgreatADJMatóPROPN[PUNCT14NUM]PUNCTHePRONgrappledVERBandCCONJslewVERBinADPtheDETnorthernADJsnowNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BloodbloodNOUNNumber=Sing3 redcompound
2--PUNCT_1 Bloodpunct
3redredADJDegree=Pos6 stripesamod
4werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 stripescop
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 stripesdet
6stripesstripeNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
7ononADP_10 cheekcase
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 cheeknmod:poss
9swarthyswarthyADJDegree=Pos10 cheekamod
10cheekcheekNOUNNumber=Sing6 stripesnmod
11,,PUNCT_23 clawspunct
12AndandCCONJ_23 clawscc
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 necklacedet
14necklacenecklaceNOUNNumber=Sing23 clawsnsubj
15thatthatPRONPronType=Rel16 girdlednsubj
16girdledgirdleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 necklaceacl:relcl
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 necknmod:poss
18brawnybrawnyADJDegree=Pos19 neckamod
19neckneckNOUNNumber=Sing16 girdledobj
20WasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 clawscop
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 clawsdet
22polishedpolishVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass23 clawsamod
23clawsclawNOUNNumber=Plur6 stripesconj
24ofofADP_27 Matócase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 Matódet
26greatgreatADJDegree=Pos27 Matóamod
27MatóMatóPROPNNumber=Sing32 grappledobl
28[[PUNCT_29 14punct
291414NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card27 Matóappos
30]]PUNCT_29 14punct
31HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 grapplednsubj
32grappledgrappleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 clawsacl:relcl
33andandCCONJ_34 slewcc
34slewslayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 grappledconj
35ininADP_38 snowcase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 snowdet
37northernnorthernADJDegree=Pos38 snowamod
38snowsnowNOUNNumber=Sing34 slewobl
39..PUNCT_6 stripespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastthe red stripes and the polished clawsProud's swarthy cheektree rules
2girdlepastthe necklaceProud's brawny necktree rules
3polishparticiplevn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4is apastthe necklacethe polished clawstree rules
5grapplepastProudthe polished claws not said hereof the great Matóvn cope-83-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme
6slaypastProud not said herethe northern snowvn 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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