Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 72
[b] A strap used in carrying burdens.
What happens: use, carry · To what, where: strap, burdens
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 2 b | punct |
| 2 | b | b | NUM | _ | 5 strap | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 b | punct |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 strap | det |
| 5 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 strap | acl |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 carrying | mark |
| 8 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 used | advcl |
| 9 | burdens | burden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carrying | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 strap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | a strap not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | burdens | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Theme |
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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