Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 44
The warriors rally beneath the moon; They shoot their shafts at the evil spirit.
Who acts: warriors · What happens: rally, shoot · To what, where: shafts, evil spirit
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 (warriors), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 warriors | det |
| 2 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rally | nsubj |
| 3 | rally | rally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 6 moon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rally | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 shoot | punct |
| 8 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shoot | nsubj |
| 9 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rally | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shafts | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shafts | shaft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shoot | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 spirit | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spirit | det |
| 14 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spirit | compound |
| 15 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shoot | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rally | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rally | present | the warriors | beneath the moon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shoot | present | warriors = warrior | warriors's shafts | the evil spirit | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shaft=Theme at spirit=Destination |
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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