Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 36

Wiwâstè sat late in the lodge alone, Her dark eyes bent on the glowing fire.

Who acts: Wiwâstè · What happens: sit, bend, glow · To what, where: lodge, dark eyes, glowing 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 (Wiwâstè), 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	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 sat	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 lodge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lodge	det
6	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 lodge	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eyes	punct
9	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eyes	amod
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lodge	conj
12	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 eyes	acl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fire	det
15	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 fire	amod
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bent	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Wiwâstè		the lodge and Wiwâstè's dark eyes	late property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lodge=Location
2	bend	participle		Wiwâstè's dark eyes not said here	the glowing fire		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fire=Location
3	glow	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 36