Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 95
Mild was his face as the morning skies, And friendship shone in his laughing eyes; But swift were his feet o'er the drifted snow On the trail of the elk or the buffalo; And his heart was stouter than lance or bow, When he heard the whoop of his enemies.
Who acts: Mild, heart · What happens: be, shine, laugh, swift, drift, hear · To what, where: face, friendship, laughing eyes, trail, feet, whoop
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 (Mild, heart), 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 | Mild | mild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 face | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 face | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 skies | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 skies | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skies | compound |
| 8 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 face | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 friendship | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 friendship | cc |
| 11 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 face | conj |
| 12 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 friendship | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shone | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 swift | punct |
| 18 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 swift | cc |
| 19 | swift | swift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 face | parataxis |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 feet | cop |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feet | nmod:poss |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 swift | obj |
| 23 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 26 snow | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 snow | det |
| 25 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 snow | amod |
| 26 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swift | obl |
| 27 | On | on | ADP | _ | 29 trail | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 trail | det |
| 29 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swift | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 elk | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 elk | det |
| 32 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 trail | nmod |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 buffalo | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 buffalo | det |
| 35 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 elk | conj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 stouter | punct |
| 37 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 stouter | cc |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 heart | nmod:poss |
| 39 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stouter | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 stouter | cop |
| 41 | stouter | stout | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 swift | parataxis |
| 42 | than | than | ADP | _ | 43 lance | case |
| 43 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stouter | obl |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 bow | cc |
| 45 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lance | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 heard | punct |
| 47 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 heard | advmod |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 heard | nsubj |
| 49 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 stouter | conj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 whoop | det |
| 51 | whoop | whoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 heard | obj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 enemies | case |
| 53 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 54 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 whoop | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 face | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mild | fawn's face and friendship | as the morning skies; fawn nmod:poss; friendship conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shine | participle | friendship not said here | fawn's laughing eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location | ||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | swift | past | the trail of the elk or the buffalo | o'er the drifted snow | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | fawn's feet | fawn nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | drift | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | is | past | fawn's heart | than lance or bow; stout property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | hear | past | heart | the whoop of fawn's enemies | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whoop=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | whoop | fawn's enemies | nom whoop «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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