Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 23
Proud Red Cloud turned to the braves and said, As he shook the plumes on his haughty head:
Who acts: Proud Red Cloud, cloud · What happens: turn, say, shake · To what, where: braves, plumes, haughty head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Proud Red Cloud, cloud), 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 | Proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Cloud | amod |
| 2 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cloud | flat |
| 3 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 braves | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 braves | det |
| 7 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turned | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shook | punct |
| 11 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 shook | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shook | nsubj |
| 13 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plumes | det |
| 15 | plumes | plume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shook | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 head | amod |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shook | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Proud Red Cloud | the braves | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to brave=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Proud Red Cloud not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shake | past | cloud | the plumes | cloud's haughty head | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent plume=Theme on head=Trajectory |
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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