Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 50
"My Father," she said, and her words were low, "Why should I fear? for I soon will go To the broad, blue lodge in the Spirit land, Where my dark eyed mother went long ago, And my dear twin sisters walk hand in hand.
Who acts: Father, words, dark, mother, dear twin sisters, foe · What happens: say, be, fear, go, eye, walk · To what, where: broad blue lodge, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Father, words, dark, mother), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Father | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Father | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Father | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 low | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 low | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 words | nmod:poss |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 low | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 low | cop |
| 13 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fear | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fear | punct |
| 16 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 fear | advmod |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fear | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 fear | nsubj |
| 19 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 fear | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 go | advmod |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fear | advcl |
| 26 | To | to | ADP | _ | 31 lodge | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lodge | det |
| 28 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lodge | amod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 broad | punct |
| 30 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lodge | amod |
| 31 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 land | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 land | det |
| 34 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 land | compound |
| 35 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lodge | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 eyed | punct |
| 37 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 eyed | advmod |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 dark | nmod:poss |
| 39 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 eyed | nsubj |
| 40 | eyed | eye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 land | parataxis |
| 41 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 went | nsubj |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 eyed | ccomp |
| 43 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 ago | advmod |
| 44 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 42 went | advmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 walk | punct |
| 46 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 walk | cc |
| 47 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 48 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 sisters | amod |
| 49 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 sisters | compound |
| 50 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 walk | nsubj |
| 51 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 52 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 walk | obj |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 hand | case |
| 54 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 walk | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | My Father | foe nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | foe's words | low property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fear in a quote | should | My Father = father | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future | My Father = father | the broad blue lodge in the Spirit land | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | eye in a quote | past | my dark | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go in a quote | past | mother | ago property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | walk in a quote | present | my dear twin sisters | hand | hand | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in hand=Trajectory | |||
| 8 | word | foe | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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