Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 69
And then with her round, brown arms she pressed His phantom form to her throbbing breast, And whispered the name, in her happy sleep, Of her Hóhé hunter so fair and far.
Who acts: Wiwâstè, lover · What happens: press, whisper, form, sleep · To what, where: phantom form, name, happy sleep
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 (Wiwâstè, lover), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pressed | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 pressed | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 arms | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arms | nmod:poss |
| 5 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 arms | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 round | punct |
| 7 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 arms | amod |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pressed | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pressed | nsubj |
| 10 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 form | nmod:poss |
| 12 | phantom | phantom | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 form | amod |
| 13 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pressed | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 breast | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breast | nmod:poss |
| 16 | throbbing | throbbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 breast | compound |
| 17 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pressed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 whispered | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 whispered | cc |
| 20 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pressed | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 name | det |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 whispered | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sleep | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 sleep | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 26 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sleep | amod |
| 27 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 whispered | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 hunter | punct |
| 29 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 32 hunter | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hunter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | Hóhé | Hóhé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 hunter | compound |
| 32 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 whispered | obl |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 fair | advmod |
| 34 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 hunter | amod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 far | cc |
| 36 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 fair | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | Wiwâstè | lover's phantom form | then | with Wiwâstè's round brown arms; to Wiwâstè's throbbing breast | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Wiwâstè not said here | the name | Wiwâstè's happy sleep | of Wiwâstè's Hóhé hunter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic | ||
| 3 | form | lover | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | sleep | Wiwâstè | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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