Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 65
Light was her heart as she turned away; It sang like the lark in the skies of May.
Who acts: Light, wife · What happens: be, turn away, sing · To what, where: heart, skies
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 (Light, wife), 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 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heart | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 turned | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heart | acl:relcl |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 turned | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sang | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sang | nsubj |
| 11 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heart | conj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 lark | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lark | det |
| 14 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sang | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 skies | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skies | det |
| 17 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sang | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 May | case |
| 19 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 skies | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Light | wife's heart | wife nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn away | past | wife | wife's heart not said here | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | light | the skies of May | like the lark | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location |
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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