Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 16
And again the tekenâgun Held a babe--a tawny daughter, Held a dark-eyed, dimpled daughter; And they called her Waub-omeé-meé,-- Thus they named her--the White-Pigeon.
Who acts: tekenâgun, tawny daughter, babe · What happens: hold, dimple, call, name · To what, where: babe, eyed dimpled daughter, Waub omeé meé, tekenâgun · 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 (tekenâgun, tawny daughter, babe), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Held | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 tekenâgun | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tekenâgun | det |
| 4 | tekenâgun | tekenâgun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Held | nsubj |
| 5 | Held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 babe | det |
| 7 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Held | obj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 daughter | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 daughter | det |
| 10 | tawny | tawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 daughter | amod |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 babe | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Held | punct |
| 13 | Held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 daughter | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 daughter | det |
| 15 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyed | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 dark | punct |
| 17 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 daughter | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eyed | punct |
| 19 | dimpled | dimple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 daughter | amod |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Held | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 22 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 called | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 called | nsubj |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Held | parataxis |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 meé | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Waub | Waub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 meé | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Waub | punct |
| 28 | omeé | omeé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 meé | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 omeé | punct |
| 30 | meé | meé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 named | punct |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 named | punct |
| 33 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 35 named | advmod |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 named | nsubj |
| 35 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 called | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 named | obj |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 Pigeon | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Pigeon | det |
| 39 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Pigeon | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 White | punct |
| 41 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 named | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the tekenâgun | a babe and a tawny daughter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | participle | a tawny daughter not said here | a eyed dimpled daughter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dimple | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | call | past | babe | tekenâgun's Waub omeé meé | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | name | past | babe | tekenâgun | the White Pigeon obl; thus property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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