Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 47
Then the chief and the queenly Wiwâstè stood Alone in the moon-lit solitude, And she was silent and he was grave. "
Who acts: chief, burning · What happens: stand, lit, be · To what, where: lit solitude
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 (chief, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Wiwâstè | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wiwâstè | det |
| 6 | queenly | queenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Wiwâstè | amod |
| 7 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | conj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 stood | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 solitude | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 solitude | det |
| 12 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lit | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 moon | punct |
| 14 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 solitude | amod |
| 15 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 silent | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 silent | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 silent | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 silent | cop |
| 20 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stood | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grave | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 grave | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 grave | cop |
| 24 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 silent | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the chief and the queenly Wiwâstè | the lit solitude | then | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in solitude=Location | ||
| 2 | lit | participle | moon compound | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | chief | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | burning | grave property | tree rules |
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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