Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 96

Five feathers he wore of the great Wanmdeè, And each for the scalp of a warrior slain, When down on his camp from the northern plain, With their murder cries rode the bloody Cree.

Who acts: Five feathers, murder cries, feathers · What happens: wear, ride, cry · To what, where: northern plain, bloody Cree

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 (Five feathers, murder cries, feathers), 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	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 feathers	nummod
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wore	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wore	nsubj
4	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 Wanmdeè	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wanmdeè	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Wanmdeè	amod
8	Wanmdeè	Wanmdeè	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wore	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scalp	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 scalp	cc
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 scalp	det
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 scalp	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 scalp	det
14	scalp	scalp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 slain	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 slain	det
17	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slain	compound
18	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scalp	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 down	punct
20	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 down	advmod
21	down	down	ADV	_	4 wore	parataxis
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 camp	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 camp	nmod:poss
24	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 down	obl
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 plain	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 plain	det
27	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 plain	amod
28	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rode	punct
30	With	with	SCONJ	_	34 rode	mark
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 cries	nmod:poss
32	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cries	compound
33	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rode	nsubj
34	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wore	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Cree	det
36	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Cree	amod
37	Cree	Cree	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 rode	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wear	past	Five feathers		the northern plain	of the great Wanmdeè; for each scalp of a warrior slain; heart nsubj	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent of wanmdeè=Source
2	ride	past	feathers's murder cries	the bloody Cree			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cree=Theme
3	cry		feathers = feather				nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 96

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 96