Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 6
To honor Heyóka, Wakâwa lifts His fuming pipe from the Red-stone Quarry.
What happens: honor, lift · To what, where: Heyóka, fuming pipe, Red stone
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: 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 honor | mark |
| 2 | honor | honor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lifts | csubj |
| 3 | Heyóka | Heyóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 honor | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Heyóka | punct |
| 5 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Heyóka | flat |
| 6 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fuming | fuming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pipe | compound |
| 9 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifts | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stone | det |
| 12 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 stone | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Red | punct |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifts | obl |
| 15 | Quarry | Quarry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 stone | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lifts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honor | to-infinitive | Heyóka | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heyóka=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lift | present | Heyóka's fuming pipe | the Red stone | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme from stone=Destination |
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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