Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 54

And robed in her mantle of mist the sprite Her low wail poured on the silent night.

Who acts: foaming · What happens: robe, pour, wail · To what, where: sprite, mantle, low wail

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 (foaming), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 robed	cc
2	robed	robe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 mantle	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mantle	nmod:poss
5	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 robed	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 mist	case
7	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mantle	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sprite	det
9	sprite	sprite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 robed	obj
10	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wail	nmod:poss
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wail	amod
12	wail	wail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 robed	obj
13	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 wail	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 night	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 night	det
16	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 night	amod
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 poured	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 robed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	robe	past		the sprite	foaming's mantle of mist		foaming's low wail obj	tree rules
2	pour	participle		foaming's low wail not said here		night		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	wail		foaming					nom wail «communication 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 54

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 54