Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 8
The white cloud drifts From the Council-lodge to the welkin starry, Like a fog at morn on the fir-clad hill, When the meadows are damp and the winds are still.
Who acts: white cloud, meadows, winds · What happens: drift, be · To what, where: Council lodge
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 (white cloud, meadows, winds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cloud | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cloud | amod |
| 3 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drifts | nsubj |
| 4 | drifts | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | From | from | ADP | _ | 9 lodge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lodge | det |
| 7 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lodge | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Council | punct |
| 9 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drifts | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 welkin | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 welkin | det |
| 12 | welkin | welkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lodge | nmod |
| 13 | starry | starry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drifts | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fog | punct |
| 15 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 17 fog | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fog | det |
| 17 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drifts | parataxis |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 morn | case |
| 19 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fog | nmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 hill | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hill | det |
| 22 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 clad | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 fir | punct |
| 24 | clad | clad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hill | amod |
| 25 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fog | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 damp | punct |
| 27 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 damp | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 meadows | det |
| 29 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 damp | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 damp | cop |
| 31 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fog | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 still | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 winds | det |
| 34 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 still | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 still | cop |
| 36 | still | still | ADV | _ | 31 damp | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drifts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift | present | the white cloud | the Council lodge to the welkin | a fog at morn on the clad hill parataxis; starry property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lodge=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is | present | the meadows | damp property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the winds | still property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/8/