Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 94

Tall and straight as the larch tree stood The manly form of the brave young chief, And fair as the larch in its vernal leaf, When the red fawn bleats in the feathering wood.

Who acts: larch tree, red fawn · What happens: stand, bleat, form · To what, where: manly form, feathering wood, brave young chief

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 (larch tree, red fawn), 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	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 straight	cc
3	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tall	conj
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 stood	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	larch	larch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	nsubj
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 straight	advcl
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 form	det
10	manly	manly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 form	amod
11	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 chief	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chief	det
14	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chief	amod
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chief	amod
16	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 form	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fair	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 fair	cc
19	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tall	conj
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 larch	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 larch	det
22	larch	larch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fair	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 leaf	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 leaf	nmod:poss
25	vernal	vernal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 leaf	amod
26	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 larch	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bleats	punct
28	When	when	SCONJ	_	32 bleats	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fawn	det
30	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fawn	amod
31	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bleats	nsubj
32	bleats	bleat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 leaf	acl:relcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 wood	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wood	det
35	feathering	feathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wood	compound
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bleats	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past	the larch tree	the manly form of the brave young chief		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus
2	bleat	present	the red fawn		the feathering wood	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	form			the brave young chief		nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 94

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 94