Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 59
You have pledged me as wife to the tall Red Cloud; You will take the gifts of the warrior proud; But I, Wakâwa,--I answer--never!
Who acts: You, I · What happens: pledge, take, not answer, gift · To what, where: me, gifts, warrior
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 (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 pledged | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pledged | aux |
| 3 | pledged | pledge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pledged | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pledged | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Cloud | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Cloud | det |
| 9 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Cloud | amod |
| 10 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Cloud | flat |
| 11 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 13 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pledged | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gifts | det |
| 17 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 warrior | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 warrior | det |
| 20 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gifts | nmod |
| 21 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 warrior | amod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 answer | punct |
| 23 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 I | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 answer | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Wakâwa | punct |
| 26 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 I | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 answer | punct |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 answer | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 answer | nsubj |
| 30 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pledged | conj |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 never | punct |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 answer | advmod |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 pledged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pledge | present · perfect | You | me | as wife to the tall Red Cloud | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | future | You | the gifts of the warrior | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not answer speech: assert | present | I | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | gift | the warrior | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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