Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 52

I sat, when the maple leaves were red, By the foaming falls of the haunted river; The night sun was walking above my head, And the arrows shone in his burnished quiver; And the winds were hushed and the hour was dread With the walking ghosts of the silent dead.

Who acts: I, maple leaves, foaming, night sun, arrows, sun · What happens: sit, be, fall, haunt, walk, shine · To what, where: head, burnished quiver, winds, hour

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 (I, maple leaves, foaming, night sun), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 red	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 red	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leaves	det
6	maple	maple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaves	compound
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 red	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 red	cop
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 falls	punct
11	By	by	SCONJ	_	14 falls	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 foaming	det
13	foaming	foaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 falls	nsubj
14	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 red	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
17	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 river	amod
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 falls	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 walking	punct
20	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sun	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sun	compound
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walking	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 walking	aux
24	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
25	above	above	ADP	_	27 head	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walking	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 shone	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 shone	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 arrows	det
31	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 shone	nsubj
32	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 quiver	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 quiver	nmod:poss
35	burnished	burnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 quiver	amod
36	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shone	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 hushed	punct
38	And	and	CCONJ	_	42 hushed	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 winds	det
40	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 hushed	nsubj:pass
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 hushed	aux:pass
42	hushed	hush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 dread	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 hour	det
45	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 dread	nsubj:pass
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 dread	aux:pass
47	dread	drea	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 hushed	conj
48	With	with	ADP	_	51 ghosts	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 ghosts	det
50	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 ghosts	compound
51	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 dread	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	55 dead	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 dead	det
54	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 dead	amod
55	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 ghosts	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	I				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the maple leaves			red property	tree rules
3	fall	present	the foaming			of the haunted river	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of river=Initial_Location
4	haunt	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	walk	past · progressive	the night sun		my head		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above head=Trajectory
6	shine	past	the arrows		sun's burnished quiver		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in quiver=Location
7	burnish	participle					tree rules
8	hush	past · passive		the winds			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
9	drea	past · passive		the hour		with the walking ghosts of the silent dead	tree rules
10	quiver		sun				nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 52

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Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 52