Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 53
I heard the voice of the Water-Fairy; [28] I saw her form in the moon-lit mist, As she sat on a stone with her burden weary, By the foaming eddies of amethyst.
Who acts: I, foaming, Fairy · What happens: hear, see, lit, sit, form, burden · To what, where: voice, 28, lit mist, stone
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, foaming, Fairy), 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 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Fairy | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fairy | det |
| 7 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Fairy | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Water | punct |
| 9 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 voice | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 28 | punct |
| 12 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 saw | obl |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 28 | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 form | nmod:poss |
| 17 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 mist | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mist | det |
| 20 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lit | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 moon | punct |
| 22 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 mist | amod |
| 23 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sat | punct |
| 25 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 sat | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sat | nsubj |
| 27 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | parataxis |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 stone | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 stone | det |
| 30 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sat | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 burden | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 burden | nmod:poss |
| 33 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sat | obl |
| 34 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 burden | amod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 eddies | punct |
| 36 | By | by | ADP | _ | 39 eddies | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 eddies | det |
| 38 | foaming | foaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 eddies | compound |
| 39 | eddies | eddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sat | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 amethyst | case |
| 41 | amethyst | amethyst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 eddies | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | I | the voice of the Water Fairy | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | 28 | the lit mist | Fairy's form obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | lit | participle | moon compound | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sit | past | foaming | a stone | with foaming's burden; the foaming eddies of amethyst conj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | |||
| 5 | form | Fairy | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | burden | foaming | nom burden «cognition 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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