Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 34
Gruffly then the Panther answered: "Brave among the brave is Panther, Son of Waub-Ojeeg, the warrior, And the brave are ever silent; But a whining dog is woman, Whining ever like a coward."
Who acts: Gruffly, Brave, whining dog, woman · What happens: answer, be, whine · To what, where: Panther, woman · 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 (Gruffly, Brave, whining dog, woman), 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 | Gruffly | Gruffly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 answered | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Panther | det |
| 4 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Panther | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brave | punct |
| 8 | Brave | brave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Panther | nsubj |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 brave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brave | det |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Brave | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Panther | cop |
| 13 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Son | punct |
| 15 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Panther | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Waub | case |
| 17 | Waub | Waub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Son | nmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ojeeg | punct |
| 19 | Ojeeg | Ojeeg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Son | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 warrior | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 warrior | det |
| 22 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Panther | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 silent | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 silent | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 brave | det |
| 26 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 silent | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 silent | cop |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 silent | advmod |
| 29 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answered | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 woman | punct |
| 31 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 woman | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 dog | det |
| 33 | whining | whining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dog | compound |
| 34 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 woman | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 woman | cop |
| 36 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Whining | punct |
| 38 | Whining | whine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 woman | acl |
| 39 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 38 Whining | advmod |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 42 coward | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 coward | det |
| 42 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Whining | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 woman | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Gruffly | then | the Panther nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Brave among the brave | Panther and Son of Waub and the warrior | Son of Waub conj; the warrior conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the brave | ever | silent property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | a whining dog | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | whine in a quote | gerund | woman not said here | ever | like a coward | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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