Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 91
And behold, in the blaze of the risen day, With the hunters that followed the buffalo,-- Came her beautiful hunter--her brave Chaskè.
Who acts: hunters, risen day · What happens: rise, follow, blaze · To what, where: buffalo, blaze
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, risen day), 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 | _ | 6 blaze | cc |
| 2 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 6 blaze | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blaze | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 blaze | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blaze | det |
| 6 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blaze | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hunters | punct |
| 12 | With | with | ADP | _ | 14 hunters | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hunters | det |
| 14 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blaze | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 followed | nsubj |
| 16 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hunters | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 buffalo | det |
| 18 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 followed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hunter | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 hunter | punct |
| 21 | Came | came | ADP | _ | 24 hunter | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hunter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hunter | amod |
| 24 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blaze | conj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 Chaskè | punct |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 Chaskè | nmod:poss |
| 27 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Chaskè | amod |
| 28 | Chaskè | Chaskè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 hunter | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blaze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | participle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | follow | past | the hunters | the buffalo | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blaze | the risen day | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/91/