Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 28
[19] I laugh at red death and I laugh at red fire; Brave Red Cloud is only afraid of fear; But Wiwâstè is fair to his heart and dear; Then grant him, Wakâwa, his heart's desire."
Who acts: I, Brave Red Cloud, Wiwâstè, heart · What happens: laugh, be, grant, desire · To what, where: red death, red fire, fire
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 (I, Brave Red Cloud, Wiwâstè, heart), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 19 | punct |
| 2 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 laugh | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 19 | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 laugh | nsubj |
| 5 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 death | amod |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laugh | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 laugh | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 laugh | nsubj |
| 11 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 laugh | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 fire | case |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fire | amod |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laugh | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 afraid | punct |
| 16 | Brave | Brave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Cloud | compound |
| 17 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Cloud | flat |
| 18 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 afraid | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 afraid | cop |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 afraid | advmod |
| 21 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 laugh | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fear | case |
| 23 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 afraid | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 fair | punct |
| 25 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 fair | cc |
| 26 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 fair | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 fair | cop |
| 28 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 laugh | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 heart | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 heart | nmod:poss |
| 31 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fair | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 dear | cc |
| 33 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fair | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 grant | punct |
| 35 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 grant | advmod |
| 36 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 laugh | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 grant | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Wakâwa | punct |
| 39 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 grant | vocative |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 desire | punct |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 heart | nmod:poss |
| 42 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 desire | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 heart | case |
| 44 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 grant | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laugh | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | I | red death | 19 discourse | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | laugh | present | I | red fire | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Brave Red Cloud | of fear; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Wiwâstè | to fire's heart; fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | Wiwâstè not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | grant | infinitive | I not said here | fire | then | Wakâwa vocative; fire's heart's desire parataxis | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 7 | desire | fire's heart | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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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