Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 93
Right glad is Wakâwa his friend to hail, And Wiwâstè will find her a way to woo.
Who acts: Wiwâstè · What happens: be, hail, find, woo · To what, where: glad Wakâwa friend, friend
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), 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 | Right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 glad | amod |
| 2 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friend | amod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 friend | cop |
| 4 | Wakâwa | Wakâwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 friend | compound |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hail | mark |
| 8 | hail | hail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 friend | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 11 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 friend | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 woo | mark |
| 18 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 way | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Chaskè's glad Wakâwa friend | Chaskè nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hail | to-infinitive | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||||
| 3 | find | future | Wiwâstè | friend | a way obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme way=Attribute | |||
| 4 | woo | to-infinitive | Wiwâstè not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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