Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 29
You are cold," she said, "and famished; Here are fire and food, my husband."
Who acts: You, Fire · What happens: be, say, famish · To what, where: fire · 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 (You, Fire), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 cold | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cold | cop |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cold | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cold | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cold | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 famished | cc |
| 11 | famished | famish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 fire | punct |
| 13 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 fire | advmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fire | cop |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cold | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 food | cc |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fire | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 husband | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fire | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cold | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Fire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | famish | past | Fire not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | fire and food and my husband | here | food conj; my husband conj | tree rules |
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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