Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 58

"My Father,--my Father, her words were true; And the death of Wiwâstè will rest on you.

Who acts: Father, death, mother, Wiwâstè · What happens: be, rest, word, die

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 (Father, death, mother, Wiwâstè), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Father	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Father	nmod:poss
3	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 true	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Father	punct
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 Father	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Father	nmod:poss
7	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Father	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 words	nmod:poss
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 true	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 true	cop
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 rest	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 rest	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 death	det
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rest	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Wiwâstè	case
18	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 death	nmod
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 rest	aux
20	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 true	parataxis
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 rest	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	My Father	mother's words nsubj; true property	tree rules
2	rest in a quote	future	the death of Wiwâstè	on you	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on you=Location
3	word in a quote		mother		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
4	die in a quote		Wiwâstè		nom death «event 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 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 58