Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 40
Fair was the chief as the morning-star; His eyes were mild and his words were low, But his heart was stouter than lance or bow; And her young heart flew to her love afar O'er his trail long covered with drifted snow.
Who acts: Fair, eyes, words, heart, young heart, Wiwâstè · What happens: be, fly, cover, drift, word, love · To what, where: chief
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 (Fair, eyes, words, 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 | Fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chief | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 star | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 star | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 star | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 morning | punct |
| 9 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 mild | punct |
| 11 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mild | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mild | cop |
| 14 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chief | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 low | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 words | nmod:poss |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 low | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 low | cop |
| 19 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mild | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stouter | punct |
| 21 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 stouter | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stouter | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stouter | cop |
| 25 | stouter | stout | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 mild | conj |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 lance | case |
| 27 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stouter | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 bow | cc |
| 29 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lance | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 flew | punct |
| 31 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 flew | cc |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 heart | nmod:poss |
| 33 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 heart | amod |
| 34 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flew | nsubj |
| 35 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stouter | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 love | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 love | nmod:poss |
| 38 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flew | obl |
| 39 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 flew | xcomp |
| 40 | O'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 42 trail | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 trail | nmod:poss |
| 42 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 afar | obl |
| 43 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 covered | advmod |
| 44 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 flew | advcl |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 snow | case |
| 46 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 snow | amod |
| 47 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 covered | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Fair | the chief | as the morning star | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | heart's eyes | mild property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | heart's words | low property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | heart's heart | than lance or bow; stout property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fly | past | Wiwâstè's young heart | to Wiwâstè's love result; afar property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to love=Result | ||||
| 6 | cover | participle | Wiwâstè's young heart not said here | with drifted snow; long property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snow=Theme | ||||
| 7 | drift | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | word | heart | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | 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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