Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 11
Tall he grew and like his father, And they called the boy the Raven-- Called him Kâk-kâh-gè--the Raven.
Who acts: Tall, moccasins · What happens: grow, call · To what, where: boy, Raven, Oft · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tall, moccasins), 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 | Tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 father | cc |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 father | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 called | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Raven | det |
| 15 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Called | punct |
| 17 | Called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 Raven | acl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 Called | obj |
| 19 | Kâk | Kâk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gè | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Kâk | punct |
| 21 | kâh | kâh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gè | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 kâh | punct |
| 23 | gè | gè | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Called | xcomp |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 Raven | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Raven | det |
| 26 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gè | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Tall | Oft nsubj; Oft's father conj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past | moccasins = moccasin | the boy | the Raven xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient | |||
| 3 | call | participle | the Raven not said here | Oft | Kâk kâh gè xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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