Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 41
But she heard a warrior's stealthy tread, And the tall Wakâwa appeared, and said-- "Is Wiwâstè afraid of the spirit dread That fires the sky in the fatal north?
Who acts: Wiwâstè, tall Wakâwa, That, warrior · What happens: hear, appear, say, be, fire, tread · To what, where: stealthy tread, sky, fatal north · 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, tall Wakâwa, That, warrior), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 heard | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 warrior | det |
| 5 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tread | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 warrior | case |
| 7 | stealthy | stealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tread | amod |
| 8 | tread | tread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appeared | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Wakâwa | det |
| 12 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Wakâwa | amod |
| 13 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 afraid | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 afraid | punct |
| 20 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 afraid | cop |
| 21 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 afraid | compound |
| 22 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dread | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dread | det |
| 25 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dread | compound |
| 26 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 afraid | obl |
| 27 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 fires | nsubj |
| 28 | fires | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 afraid | ccomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sky | det |
| 30 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fires | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 north | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 north | det |
| 33 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 north | amod |
| 34 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fires | obl |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Wiwâstè | a warrior's stealthy tread | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tread=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the tall Wakâwa | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Wiwâstè not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | of the spirit dread; afraid property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fire in a quote | present | That | the sky | the fatal north | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sky=Theme in north=Destination | |||
| 6 | tread | a warrior | nom tread «act intransitive»: 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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