Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 76

[33] the hunters cried, With a joyous shout at the break of dawn; And darkly lined on the white hill-side, A herd of bison went marching on Through the drifted snow like a caravan.

Who acts: hunters, herd · What happens: cry, line, go, march on, drift, break · To what, where: 33, white hill side, drifted snow, dawn

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 (hunters, herd), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 33	punct
2	33	33	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 cried	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 33	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hunters	det
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shout	punct
8	With	with	ADP	_	11 shout	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shout	det
10	joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shout	amod
11	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 break	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 break	det
14	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shout	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 dawn	case
16	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 break	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 darkly	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 darkly	cc
19	darkly	darkly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cried	conj
20	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 darkly	advcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	26 side	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 side	det
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 side	amod
24	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 side	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 hill	punct
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lined	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
28	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 herd	det
29	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 bison	case
31	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 herd	nmod
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
33	marching	march	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 went	xcomp
34	on	on	ADP	_	33 marching	compound:prt
35	Through	through	ADP	_	38 snow	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 snow	det
37	drifted	drift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 snow	amod
38	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 marching	obl
39	like	like	ADP	_	41 caravan	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 caravan	det
41	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 marching	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the hunters	33		with a joyous shout at the break of dawn	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with shout=Theme
2	line	participle	the hunters not said here		the white hill side		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	a herd of bison				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	march on	gerund	a herd of bison not said here		the drifted snow	like a caravan	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through snow=Trajectory
5	drift	participle					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	break			dawn			nom break «event 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 76

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 76