Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 98

A mountain bear to his enemies, To his friends like the red fawn's dappled form; In peace, like the breeze from the summer seas; In war, like the roar of the mountain storm.

Who acts: red fawn, mountain storm · What happens: dapple, form, roar · To what, where: mountain bear

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 (red fawn, mountain storm), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bear	det
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bear	compound
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 enemies	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 enemies	nmod:poss
6	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bear	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 friends	punct
8	To	to	ADP	_	10 friends	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friends	nmod:poss
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bear	nmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	17 form	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fawn	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fawn	amod
14	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 form	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 fawn	case
16	dappled	dapple	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 form	amod
17	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 friends	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 peace	punct
19	In	in	ADP	_	20 peace	case
20	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bear	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 breeze	punct
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 breeze	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 breeze	det
24	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 peace	appos
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 seas	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 seas	det
27	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seas	compound
28	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 breeze	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 war	punct
30	In	in	ADP	_	31 war	case
31	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bear	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 roar	punct
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 roar	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 roar	det
35	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 war	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 storm	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 storm	det
38	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 storm	compound
39	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 roar	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	dapple	participle		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	form		the red fawn	nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent
4	roar		the mountain storm	nom roar «event 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.

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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 98

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 98