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Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 73

My dreams are like feathers that float on the breeze, And none can tell what the omens are-- Save the beautiful dream of my love afar In the happy land of the tall Hóhé [15]-- My beautiful hunter--my brave Chaskè."

Who acts: dreams, feathers, none, omens, My · What happens: be, float, tell, dream · To what, where: breeze, brave Chaskè, feathers, love afar · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dreams, feathers, none, omens), 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

nmod:possnsubjcopcasensubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctccnsubjauxparataxisccompdetnsubjcoppunctcasedetamodoblcasenmod:posscompoundnmodcasedetamodnmodcasedetamodnmodpunctappospunctpunctnmod:possamodconjpunctnmod:possamodoblpunctpunctrootMyPRONdreamsNOUNareAUXlikeADPfeathersNOUNthatPRONfloatVERBonADPtheDETbreezeNOUN,PUNCTAndCCONJnonePRONcanAUXtellVERBwhatPRONtheDETomensNOUNareAUX--PUNCTSaveADPtheDETbeautifulADJdreamNOUNofADPmyPRONloveNOUNafarNOUNInADPtheDEThappyADJlandNOUNofADPtheDETtallADJHóhéPROPN[PUNCT15NUM]PUNCT--PUNCTMyPRONbeautifulADJhunterNOUN--PUNCTmyPRONbraveADJChaskèPROPN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 dreamsnmod:poss
2dreamsdreamNOUNNumber=Plur5 feathersnsubj
3arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 featherscop
4likelikeADP_5 featherscase
5feathersfeatherNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
6thatthatPRONPronType=Rel7 floatnsubj
7floatfloatVERBMood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 feathersacl:relcl
8ononADP_10 breezecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 breezedet
10breezebreezeNOUNNumber=Sing7 floatobl
11,,PUNCT_15 tellpunct
12AndandCCONJ_15 tellcc
13nonenonePRONPronType=Neg15 tellnsubj
14cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin15 tellaux
15telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf5 feathersparataxis
16whatwhatPRONPronType=Int15 tellccomp
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 omensdet
18omensomenNOUNNumber=Plur16 whatnsubj
19arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 whatcop
20----PUNCT_24 dreampunct
21SavesaveADP_24 dreamcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 dreamdet
23beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos24 dreamamod
24dreamdreamNOUNNumber=Sing15 tellobl
25ofofADP_28 afarcase
26mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 afarnmod:poss
27loveloveNOUNNumber=Sing28 afarcompound
28afarafarNOUNNumber=Sing24 dreamnmod
29IninADP_32 landcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 landdet
31happyhappyADJDegree=Pos32 landamod
32landlandNOUNNumber=Sing28 afarnmod
33ofofADP_36 Hóhécase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 Hóhédet
35talltallADJDegree=Pos36 Hóhéamod
36HóhéHóhéPROPNNumber=Sing32 landnmod
37[[PUNCT_38 15punct
381515NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card36 Hóhéappos
39]]PUNCT_38 15punct
40----PUNCT_43 hunterpunct
41MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs43 hunternmod:poss
42beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos43 hunteramod
43hunterhunterNOUNNumber=Sing28 afarconj
44----PUNCT_47 Chaskèpunct
45mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs47 Chaskènmod:poss
46bravebraveADJDegree=Pos47 Chaskèamod
47ChaskèChaskèPROPNNumber=Sing15 tellobl
48..PUNCT_15 tellpunct
49""PUNCT_15 tellpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentMy dreamslike featherstree rules
2floatpresentfeathersthe breezevn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on breeze=Trajectory
3tell speech: assertcannonemy brave Chaskèsave the beautiful dream of my love afar in the happy land of the tall Hóhé and My beautiful huntervn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4is apresentthe omensfeatherstree rules
5dreamMynom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
6dreammy love afar in the happy land of the tall Hóhé and My beautiful hunternom dream «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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