Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 86

With lance and arrow they slay and slay; And the welkin rings to the gladsome shout-- To the loud Inâs and the wild Ihós, [34]-- And dark and dead, on the bloody snows, Lie the swarthy heaps of the buffaloes.

Who acts: flankers, welkin · What happens: slay, ring, lie · To what, where: swarthy heaps

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 (flankers, welkin), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 lance	case
2	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slay	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 arrow	cc
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lance	conj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slay	nsubj
6	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slay	cc
8	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slay	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 rings	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 rings	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 welkin	det
12	welkin	welkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rings	nsubj
13	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slay	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 shout	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shout	det
16	gladsome	gladsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 shout	amod
17	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rings	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 Inâs	punct
19	To	to	ADP	_	22 Inâs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Inâs	det
21	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Inâs	amod
22	Inâs	Inâs	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rings	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Ihós	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Ihós	det
25	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Ihós	amod
26	Ihós	Ihós	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Inâs	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 34	punct
28	[	[	PUNCT	_	29 34	punct
29	34	34	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 Inâs	list
30	]	]	PUNCT	_	29 34	punct
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 dark	punct
32	And	and	CCONJ	_	33 dark	cc
33	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rings	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 dead	cc
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dark	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 snows	punct
37	on	on	ADP	_	40 snows	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 snows	det
39	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 snows	amod
40	snows	snow	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dark	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Lie	punct
42	Lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slay	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 heaps	det
44	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 heaps	amod
45	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 Lie	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 buffaloes	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 buffaloes	det
48	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 heaps	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slay	present	flankers = flanker		with lance and arrow	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with lance=Instrument
2	slay	present	flankers = flanker not said here			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	ring	present	the welkin		to the gladsome shout; to the loud Inâs and the wild Ihós	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	present	flankers = flanker not said here	the swarthy heaps of the buffaloes		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heap=Theme

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 86

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 86