Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 38
Far away in the land of the Hóhé [15] dwelt The warrior she held in her secret heart; But little he dreamed of the pain she felt, For she hid her love with a maiden's art.
Who acts: Wiwâstè, heart · What happens: dwell, hold, dream, feel, hide, love · To what, where: warrior, land, secret heart, little, pain, love
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, 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 dwelt | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 land | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 land | det |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dwelt | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Hóhé | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hóhé | det |
| 8 | Hóhé | Hóhé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 land | nmod |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 15 | punct |
| 10 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Hóhé | appos |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 15 | punct |
| 12 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 warrior | det |
| 14 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dwelt | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 held | nsubj |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 warrior | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 heart | amod |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 dreamed | punct |
| 22 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 dreamed | cc |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dreamed | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 dreamed | nsubj |
| 25 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dwelt | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 pain | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pain | det |
| 28 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dreamed | obl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 felt | nsubj |
| 30 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 pain | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hid | punct |
| 32 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 hid | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hid | nsubj |
| 34 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dwelt | conj |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 love | nmod:poss |
| 36 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hid | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 art | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 maiden | det |
| 39 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 art | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 maiden | case |
| 41 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hid | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | the warrior | the land of the Hóhé | away property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme warrior=Location | |||
| 2 | hold | past | Wiwâstè | the warrior not said here | Wiwâstè's secret heart | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme in heart=Location | |||
| 3 | dream | past | heart | little | of the pain | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | feel | past | Wiwâstè | the pain not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hide | past | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè's love | with a maiden's art | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | |||
| 6 | love | Wiwâstè | nom love «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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