Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 55

Then the spirit spake, and the floods were still-- They hushed and listened to what she said, And hushed was the plaint of the whippowil In the silver-birches above her head: 'Wiwâstè,--the prairies are green and fair, When the robin sings and the whippowil; But the land of the Spirits is fairer still, For the winds of winter blow never there; And forever the songs of the whippowils And the robins are heard on the leafy hills.

Who acts: winds, foaming, floods, prairies, robin, land · What happens: be, listen, say, hush, sing, blow · To what, where: floods, plaint, whippowil, songs, leafy hills, spirit spake · 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 (winds, foaming, floods, prairies), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 spake	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spake	det
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spake	compound
4	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 plaint	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 plaint	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floods	det
8	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 plaint	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hushed	cop
10	still	still	ADV	_	13 hushed	advmod
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 hushed	punct
12	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hushed	nsubj
13	hushed	hush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 floods	acl:relcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 listened	cc
15	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hushed	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 what	case
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 listened	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hushed	punct
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 hushed	cc
22	hushed	hush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hushed	conj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 plaint	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 plaint	det
25	plaint	plaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spake	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 whippowil	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 whippowil	det
28	whippowil	whippowil	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plaint	nmod
29	In	in	ADP	_	33 birches	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 birches	det
31	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 birches	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 silver	punct
33	birches	birch	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 whippowil	nmod
34	above	above	ADP	_	36 head	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 head	nmod:poss
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 birches	nmod
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 Wiwâstè	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 Wiwâstè	punct
39	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spake	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 green	punct
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	45 green	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 prairies	det
43	prairies	prairie	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 green	nsubj
44	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 green	cop
45	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Wiwâstè	parataxis
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 fair	cc
47	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 green	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 sings	punct
49	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	52 sings	advmod
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 robin	det
51	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sings	nsubj
52	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 Wiwâstè	parataxis
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 whippowil	cc
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 whippowil	det
55	whippowil	whippowil	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sings	obl
56	;	;	PUNCT	_	64 fairer	punct
57	But	but	CCONJ	_	64 fairer	cc
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 land	det
59	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 fairer	nsubj
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 Spirits	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 Spirits	det
62	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 land	nmod
63	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 fairer	cop
64	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	52 sings	advcl
65	still	still	ADV	_	64 fairer	advmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 winds	punct
67	For	for	ADP	_	69 winds	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 winds	det
69	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 blow	nsubj
70	of	of	ADP	_	71 winter	case
71	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 winds	nmod
72	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 sings	conj
73	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	74 there	advmod
74	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	72 blow	advmod
75	;	;	PUNCT	_	79 songs	punct
76	And	and	CCONJ	_	79 songs	cc
77	forever	forever	ADV	_	79 songs	advmod
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 songs	det
79	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	87 heard	nsubj:pass
80	of	of	ADP	_	82 whippowils	case
81	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	82 whippowils	det
82	whippowils	whippowil	NOUN	Number=Plur	79 songs	nmod
83	And	and	CCONJ	_	85 robins	cc
84	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	85 robins	det
85	robins	robin	NOUN	Number=Plur	82 whippowils	conj
86	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	87 heard	aux:pass
87	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	72 blow	parataxis
88	on	on	ADP	_	91 hills	case
89	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	91 hills	det
90	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	91 hills	amod
91	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	87 heard	obl
92	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	winds = wind	the floods not said here		still	hush property	tree rules
2	listen	past	winds = wind not said here				what obl	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	foaming					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	hush	past	winds = wind not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	past	the floods	the plaint			of the whippowil in the silver birches above foaming's head	tree rules
6	is	present	the prairies				green property	tree rules
7	be		the prairies not said here					tree rules
8	sing speech: express	present	the robin	the whippowil				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	present	the land of the Spirits			still	fair property	tree rules
10	blow	present	the winds of winter		there	never		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
11	hear	present · passive		the songs of the whippowils and the robins	the leafy hills			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
13	wind			winter				nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
14	sing		the whippowils and the robins					nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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 55

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Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 55