Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 43
Come forth Some evil threatens,--some danger nears, For the skies are pierced with the burning spears."
Who acts: you, evil, danger, burning · What happens: come, threaten, near, pierce, spear · To what, where: skies
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 (you, evil, danger, burning), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 evil | det |
| 4 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threatens | nsubj |
| 5 | threatens | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nears | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 nears | punct |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 danger | det |
| 9 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nears | nsubj |
| 10 | nears | near | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pierced | punct |
| 12 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 pierced | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 skies | det |
| 14 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pierced | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 pierced | aux:pass |
| 16 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 nears | conj |
| 17 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 spears | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 burning | det |
| 19 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spears | nsubj |
| 20 | spears | spear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 pierced | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | threaten | present | some evil | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | near | present | some danger | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pierce | present · passive | the skies | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | spear | present | the burning | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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