Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 4
With his stoic face to sacred East, [21] He takes his seat at the Giant's Feast.
Who acts: flesh · What happens: take · To what, where: seat, Giant Feast
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 (flesh), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 face | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 3 | stoic | stoic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 face | amod |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 takes | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 East | case |
| 6 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 East | amod |
| 7 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 face | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 21 | punct |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 21 | punct |
| 10 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 face | appos |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 21 | punct |
| 12 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 takes | nsubj |
| 13 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 seat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 takes | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Feast | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Feast | det |
| 18 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Feast | amod |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Giant | case |
| 20 | Feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 takes | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | flesh | flesh's seat | the Giant Feast | with flesh's stoic face to sacred East | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent seat=Theme at feast=Asset |
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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