Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 5
For the feast of Heyóka [22] the braves are dressed With crowns from the bark of the white-birch trees, And new skin leggins that reach the knees; With robes of the bison and swarthy bear, And eagle-plumes in their coal-black hair, And marvelous rings in their tawny ears, Which were pierced with the points of their shining spears.
Who acts: new skin leggins · What happens: dress, reach, pierce, shine, point · To what, where: braves, bark, knees, tawny ears, shining 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 (new skin leggins), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 feast | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dressed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Heyóka | case |
| 5 | Heyóka | Heyóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 feast | nmod |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 22 | punct |
| 7 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Heyóka | appos |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 22 | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 braves | det |
| 10 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dressed | aux:pass |
| 12 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | With | with | ADP | _ | 14 crowns | case |
| 14 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dressed | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 bark | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bark | det |
| 17 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dressed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 trees | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trees | det |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 trees | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 white | punct |
| 22 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trees | compound |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bark | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leggins | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 leggins | cc |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 leggins | amod |
| 27 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leggins | compound |
| 28 | leggins | leggin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dressed | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 reach | nsubj |
| 30 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 leggins | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 knees | det |
| 32 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 reach | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 robes | punct |
| 34 | With | with | ADP | _ | 35 robes | case |
| 35 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dressed | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 bison | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 bison | det |
| 38 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 robes | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 bear | cc |
| 40 | swarthy | swarthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 bear | amod |
| 41 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bison | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 plumes | punct |
| 43 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 plumes | cc |
| 44 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 plumes | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 eagle | punct |
| 46 | plumes | plume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 robes | conj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 hair | case |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 hair | nmod:poss |
| 49 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 black | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 coal | punct |
| 51 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 hair | amod |
| 52 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 plumes | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 rings | punct |
| 54 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 rings | cc |
| 55 | marvelous | marvelous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 rings | amod |
| 56 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 robes | conj |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 60 ears | case |
| 58 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 60 ears | nmod:poss |
| 59 | tawny | tawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 ears | amod |
| 60 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 rings | nmod |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 pierced | punct |
| 62 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 64 pierced | nsubj:pass |
| 63 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 64 pierced | aux:pass |
| 64 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 60 ears | conj |
| 65 | with | with | ADP | _ | 67 points | case |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 67 points | det |
| 67 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 64 pierced | obl |
| 68 | of | of | ADP | _ | 71 spears | case |
| 69 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 71 spears | nmod:poss |
| 70 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 71 spears | amod |
| 71 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 67 points | nmod |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | present · passive | the braves | the bark of the white birch trees | for the feast of Heyóka; with crowns; with robes of the bison and swarthy bear and eagle plumes in braves's black hair and marvelous rings in braves's tawny ears; new skin leggins obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | reach | present | new skin leggins | the knees | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent knee=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pierce | past · passive | braves's tawny ears | with the points of braves's shining spears | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with point=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | point | braves's shining spears | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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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