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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 feathers | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feathers | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 feathers | case |
| 5 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 float | nsubj |
| 7 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feathers | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 breeze | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 breeze | det |
| 10 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 float | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tell | cc |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 feathers | parataxis |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 omens | det |
| 18 | omens | omen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 what | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | cop |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 dream | punct |
| 21 | Save | save | ADP | _ | 24 dream | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dream | det |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dream | amod |
| 24 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 afar | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 afar | nmod:poss |
| 27 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 afar | compound |
| 28 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dream | nmod |
| 29 | In | in | ADP | _ | 32 land | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 land | det |
| 31 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 land | amod |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 afar | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Hóhé | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Hóhé | det |
| 35 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Hóhé | amod |
| 36 | Hóhé | Hóhé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 land | nmod |
| 37 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 38 15 | punct |
| 38 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 Hóhé | appos |
| 39 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 38 15 | punct |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 43 hunter | punct |
| 41 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 hunter | nmod:poss |
| 42 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 hunter | amod |
| 43 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 afar | conj |
| 44 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 47 Chaskè | punct |
| 45 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 Chaskè | nmod:poss |
| 46 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Chaskè | amod |
| 47 | Chaskè | Chaskè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My dreams | like feathers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | float | present | feathers | the breeze | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on breeze=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | can | none | my brave Chaskè | save the beautiful dream of my love afar in the happy land of the tall Hóhé and My beautiful hunter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is a | present | the omens | feathers | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dream | My | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | dream | my love afar in the happy land of the tall Hóhé and My beautiful hunter | nom 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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