Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 45
The spirit is slain and the flame is gone, And his blood lies red on the snow fields near it.
Who acts: spirit, flame, blood · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: snow fields
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 (spirit, flame, blood), 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 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slain | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slain | cop |
| 4 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gone | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flame | det |
| 7 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | cop |
| 9 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slain | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lies | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lies | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 blood | nmod:poss |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lies | nsubj |
| 14 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slain | conj |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lies | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 fields | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fields | det |
| 18 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fields | compound |
| 19 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lies | obl |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lies | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the spirit | slain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the flame | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | burning's blood | the snow fields | near flame; red property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on field=Location |
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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