Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 3
The kettle boils on the blazing fire, And the flesh is done to the chief's desire.
Who acts: kettle, chief · What happens: boil, blaze, do, desire · To what, where: flesh
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 (kettle, chief), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kettle | det |
| 2 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boils | nsubj |
| 3 | boils | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 6 | blazing | blaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 fire | amod |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boils | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 done | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 done | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flesh | det |
| 11 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux:pass |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 boils | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 desire | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chief | det |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 desire | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 chief | case |
| 18 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 boils | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | present | the kettle | on the blazing fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on fire=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | blaze | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | do | present · passive | the flesh | to the chief's desire | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | desire | the chief | 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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