Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 62
Be happy, Micúnksee [29], the flames are gone,-- They flash no more in the Northern sky.
Who acts: flames, lips · What happens: be, flash · To what, where: more
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 (flames, lips), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 happy | cop |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gone | csubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Micúnksee | punct |
| 4 | Micúnksee | Micúnksee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 happy | obl |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 29 | punct |
| 6 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Micúnksee | appos |
| 7 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 6 29 | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gone | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flames | det |
| 10 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gone | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | cop |
| 12 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flash | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 flash | punct |
| 15 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flash | nsubj |
| 16 | flash | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | advcl |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 flash | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sky | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sky | det |
| 21 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sky | amod |
| 22 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flash | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | Micúnksee obl; happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the flames | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flash | present | lips = lip | more | in the Northern sky | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Patient in sky=Topic |
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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