Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 71

Then a flap of wings, like a thunder-bird, [32] And a wailing spirit the sleeper heard; And lo, through the mists of the moon, she saw The hateful visage of Hârpstinà.

Who acts: sleeper, flap · What happens: hear, see, mist · To what, where: wailing spirit, hateful visage, moon

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 (sleeper, flap), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 flap	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 flap	det
3	flap	flap	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 saw	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wings	case
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flap	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bird	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 bird	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
9	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bird	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 thunder	punct
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flap	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 32	punct
13	[	[	PUNCT	_	14 32	punct
14	32	32	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 bird	appos
15	]	]	PUNCT	_	14 32	punct
16	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 spirit	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 spirit	det
18	wailing	wailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spirit	compound
19	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flap	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sleeper	det
21	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spirit	acl:relcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 saw	punct
24	And	and	CCONJ	_	35 saw	cc
25	lo	lo	INTJ	_	35 saw	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lo	punct
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 mists	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mists	det
29	mists	mist	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lo	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 moon	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 moon	det
32	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mists	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lo	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 saw	nsubj
35	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 visage	det
37	hateful	hateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 visage	amod
38	visage	visage	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 saw	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Hârpstinà	case
40	Hârpstinà	Hârpstinà	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 visage	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the sleeper	a wailing spirit not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus
2	see	past	a flap of wings and a thunder bird and a wailing spirit	the hateful visage of Hârpstinà	sleeper nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visage=Stimulus
3	mist			the moon		nom mist «phenomenon 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 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 71