Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 56
Thy mother looks from her lodge above,-- Her fair face shines in the sky afar, And the eyes of thy sisters are bright with love, As they peep from the tee of the mother-star.
Who acts: mother, eyes · What happens: look, be, peep
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 (mother, eyes), 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 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 lodge | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | obl |
| 7 | above | above | ADV | _ | 3 looks | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shines | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 shines | punct |
| 10 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shines | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shines | amod |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shines | compound |
| 13 | shines | shine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looks | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 afar | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 afar | det |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 afar | compound |
| 17 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shines | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bright | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bright | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 eyes | det |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bright | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sisters | case |
| 23 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 eyes | nmod |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 bright | cop |
| 26 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looks | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 love | case |
| 28 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bright | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 peep | punct |
| 30 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 peep | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 peep | nsubj |
| 32 | peep | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 bright | conj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 tee | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tee | det |
| 35 | tee | tee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 peep | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 star | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 star | det |
| 38 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 star | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 mother | punct |
| 40 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tee | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Thy mother | from mother's lodge; mother's fair face shines in the sky afar conj; above property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from lodge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the eyes of thy sisters | with love; bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | peep | present | eyes = eye | from the tee of the mother star | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from tee=Theme |
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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