Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 66

The round moon laughed, but a lone red star, [30] As she turned to the teepee and entered in, Fell flashing and swift in the sky afar, Like the polished point of a javelin.

Who acts: round moon, moon · What happens: laugh, turn, enter, polish, point · To what, where: teepee, Fell flashing, sky afar, javelin

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 (round moon, moon), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
2	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moon	amod
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 star	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 star	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 star	det
8	lone	lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 star	amod
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 star	amod
10	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 30	punct
12	[	[	PUNCT	_	13 30	punct
13	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 star	appos
14	]	]	PUNCT	_	13 30	punct
15	As	as	SCONJ	_	17 turned	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 turned	nsubj
17	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 teepee	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 teepee	det
20	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 entered	cc
22	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 entered	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flashing	punct
25	Fell	fell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 flashing	amod
26	flashing	flashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 entered	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 swift	cc
28	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flashing	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 afar	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 afar	det
31	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 afar	compound
32	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 entered	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 point	punct
34	Like	like	ADP	_	37 point	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 point	det
36	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 point	amod
37	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 entered	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 javelin	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 javelin	det
40	javelin	javelin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 point	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the round moon			a lone red star ccomp	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn	past	moon		the teepee		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to teepee=Trajectory
3	enter	past	the round moon not said here	Fell flashing and swift	the sky afar	the polished point of a javelin parataxis	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	polish	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	point			a javelin			nom point «cognition 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 66

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 66