Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 22
[a] see Hennepin's account of Aqui-pa-que-tin and his village.
Who acts: you, Hennepin · What happens: see, account · To what, where: account, pa que tin
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hennepin), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 see | det |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Hennepin | Hennepin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 account | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Hennepin | case |
| 7 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tin | case |
| 9 | Aqui | Aqui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tin | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Aqui | punct |
| 11 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tin | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 pa | punct |
| 13 | que | que | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tin | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tin | punct |
| 15 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 account | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 village | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 village | nmod:poss |
| 18 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tin | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | Hennepin's account of pa que tin Aqui and Aqui's village | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer account=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | account | Hennepin | pa que tin Aqui and Aqui's village | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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