Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 46
But again from the dead will the spirit rise, And flash his spears in the northern skies.
Who acts: you · What happens: rise, flash · To what, where: dead spirit, spears
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), 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 | _ | 9 rise | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 rise | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 spirit | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spirit | det |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spirit | amod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 spirit | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spirit | det |
| 8 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rise | obl |
| 9 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flash | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flash | cc |
| 12 | flash | flash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 rise | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 spears | nmod:poss |
| 14 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flash | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 skies | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 skies | det |
| 17 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 skies | amod |
| 18 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flash | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | imperative | you not said here | the dead spirit | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from spirit=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | flash | infinitive | you not said here | burning's spears | in the northern skies | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent spear=Patient in sky=Topic |
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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