Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 89
And long she lay in a reverie, And dreamed, wide-awake, of her brave Chaskè, Till a trampling of feet on the crispy snow She heard, and the murmur of voices low;-- Then the hunters' greeting--Ihó!
Who acts: Wiwâstè, feet, hunters · What happens: lie, dream, hear, trample, murmur, greet · To what, where: greeting, reverie, crispy snow, voices
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 (Wiwâstè, feet, hunters), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lay | cc |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 lay | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 reverie | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 reverie | det |
| 7 | reverie | reverie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dreamed | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dreamed | cc |
| 10 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 awake | punct |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 awake | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 wide | punct |
| 14 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lay | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Chaskè | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Chaskè | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Chaskè | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Chaskè | amod |
| 19 | Chaskè | Chaskè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 trampling | punct |
| 21 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 23 trampling | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 trampling | det |
| 23 | trampling | trampling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 feet | case |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 trampling | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 snow | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 snow | det |
| 28 | crispy | crispy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 snow | amod |
| 29 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trampling | nmod |
| 30 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 heard | nsubj |
| 31 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 snow | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 low | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 low | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 murmur | det |
| 35 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 low | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 voices | case |
| 37 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 murmur | nmod |
| 38 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lay | conj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 greeting | punct |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 45 greeting | punct |
| 41 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 greeting | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 hunters | det |
| 43 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 greeting | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 43 hunters | case |
| 45 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 46 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 47 Ihó | punct |
| 47 | Ihó | Ihó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 greeting | appos |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Wiwâstè | the hunters's greeting | a reverie | till a trampling of feet on the crispy snow | of Wiwâstè's brave Chaskè; long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in reverie=Location | |
| 2 | dream | past | Wiwâstè not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | Wiwâstè | the crispy snow not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snow=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | trample | feet | the crispy snow | nom trampling «event intransitive»: of=agent on=place | |||||
| 5 | murmur | voices | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | greet | the hunters | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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