Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 39
Not a tear she shed, not a word she said, When the fair young chief from the lodge departed; But she sat on the mound when the day was dead, And gazed at the full moon mellow hearted.
Who acts: tear, Wiwâstè, day · What happens: shed, say, depart, sit, be, gaze · To what, where: word, lodge, mound · 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 (tear, Wiwâstè, day), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 tear | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tear | det |
| 3 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shed | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shed | nsubj |
| 5 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 word | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 word | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 word | det |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shed | obj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 word | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chief | punct |
| 13 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 chief | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chief | det |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 chief | amod |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 chief | amod |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | appos |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 lodge | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lodge | det |
| 20 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chief | nmod |
| 21 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 lodge | acl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 sat | punct |
| 23 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 sat | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sat | nsubj |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shed | parataxis |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 mound | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mound | det |
| 28 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sat | obl |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 dead | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 day | det |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dead | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 dead | cop |
| 33 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sat | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 gazed | punct |
| 35 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 gazed | cc |
| 36 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sat | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 moon | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 moon | det |
| 39 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 moon | amod |
| 40 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gazed | obl |
| 41 | mellow | mellow | ADV | _ | 42 hearted | advmod |
| 42 | hearted | heart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 gazed | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shed | past | a tear | a word | Wiwâstè nsubj | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Source | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Wiwâstè | a word not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | depart | participle | the lodge not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sit | past | Wiwâstè | the mound | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mound=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the day | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | gaze | past | Wiwâstè not said here | at the full moon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme | ||||
| 7 | heart | past | Wiwâstè not said here | mellow property | tree rules |
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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