Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 37
She heard not the wild winds shrill and moan; She heard not the tall elms toss and groan; Her face was lit like the harvest moon; For her thoughts flew far to her heart's desire.
Who acts: Wiwâstè, wild winds, tall elms, thoughts, heart · What happens: not hear, shrill, moan, toss, groan, lit · To what, where: face · 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 (Wiwâstè, wild winds, tall elms, thoughts), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 heard | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 winds | det |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 winds | amod |
| 6 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shrill | nsubj |
| 7 | shrill | shrill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 moan | cc |
| 9 | moan | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shrill | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 11 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | parataxis |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 heard | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 elms | det |
| 15 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 elms | amod |
| 16 | elms | elm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 toss | nsubj |
| 17 | toss | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 groan | cc |
| 19 | groan | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 toss | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 lit | punct |
| 21 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lit | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lit | aux:pass |
| 24 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 heard | conj |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 moon | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 moon | det |
| 27 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 moon | compound |
| 28 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lit | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 flew | punct |
| 30 | For | for | ADP | _ | 32 thoughts | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 32 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 flew | nsubj |
| 33 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 34 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 flew | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 desire | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 heart | nmod:poss |
| 37 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 desire | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 heart | case |
| 39 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flew | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past | Wiwâstè | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | shrill | present | the wild winds | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | moan | present | the wild winds not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not hear | past | Wiwâstè | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | toss | present | the tall elms | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | groan | present | the tall elms not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | lit | past · passive | Wiwâstè's face | like the harvest moon | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | fly | past | Wiwâstè's thoughts | to Wiwâstè's heart's desire result; far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to desire=Result | ||||
| 9 | think | Wiwâstè | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | desire | Wiwâstè'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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