Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 99
His fame in the voice of the winds went forth From his hunting grounds in the happy north, And far as the shores of the Great Medè [36] The nations spoke of the brave Chaskè.
Who acts: fame, nations · What happens: go, speak · To what, where: hunting grounds, shores · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fame, nations), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fame | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 voice | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fame | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 winds | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 winds | det |
| 8 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 voice | nmod |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | From | from | ADP | _ | 14 grounds | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 grounds | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grounds | compound |
| 14 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 north | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 north | det |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 north | amod |
| 18 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 far | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 far | cc |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 went | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 shores | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shores | det |
| 24 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 far | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Medè | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Medè | det |
| 27 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Medè | amod |
| 28 | Medè | Medè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 spoke | obl |
| 29 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 30 36 | punct |
| 30 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 Medè | appos |
| 31 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 30 36 | punct |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 nations | det |
| 33 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 spoke | nsubj |
| 34 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shores | acl:relcl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Chaskè | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Chaskè | det |
| 37 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Chaskè | amod |
| 38 | Chaskè | Chaskè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 spoke | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | heart's fame in the voice of the winds | heart's hunting grounds | in the happy north; far, forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from grounds=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the nations | the shores not said here | of the Great Medè; of the brave Chaskè | tree rules |
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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