Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 14
Brought the mallard from the marshes,-- Royal feast for boy and mother: Brought the hides of fox and beaver, Brought the skins of mink and otter, Lured the loon and took his blanket, Took his blanket for the Raven.
What happens: bring, lure, take · To what, where: mallard, marshes, hides, skins, loon, blanket
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: 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 | Brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mallard | det |
| 3 | mallard | mallard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brought | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 marshes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 marshes | det |
| 6 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Brought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feast | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 feast | punct |
| 9 | Royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feast | amod |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brought | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 boy | case |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feast | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mother | cc |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boy | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Brought | punct |
| 16 | Brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Brought | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hides | det |
| 18 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Brought | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fox | case |
| 20 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hides | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beaver | cc |
| 22 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fox | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Brought | punct |
| 24 | Brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Brought | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 skins | det |
| 26 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 Brought | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 mink | case |
| 28 | mink | mink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 skins | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 otter | cc |
| 30 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mink | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Lured | punct |
| 32 | Lured | lure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Brought | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 loon | det |
| 34 | loon | loon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Lured | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 took | cc |
| 36 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 Lured | conj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 38 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 took | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Took | punct |
| 40 | Took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 took | conj |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 42 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Took | obj |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 Raven | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Raven | det |
| 45 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Took | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the mallard | the marshes | Royal feast for boy and mother obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent mallard=Theme from marsh=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | bring | participle | the hides of fox and beaver | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hide=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | the skins of mink and otter | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lure | past | the loon | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loon=Patient | |||||
| 5 | take | past | boy's blanket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme | |||||
| 6 | take | past | boy's blanket | for the Raven | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme for raven=Beneficiary |
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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