Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 57
With a slender hair she led him, With a slender hair he drew him, Drew him often to her wigwam; There she bound him, there she held him Tangled in her raven tresses, Tied and tangled in her tresses.
Who acts: Waub, Son · What happens: lead, draw, bind, hold, tangle, tress · To what, where: Son, Ojeeg, raven, tresses
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 (Waub, Son), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 hair | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hair | det |
| 3 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hair | amod |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 led | nsubj |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 led | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hair | punct |
| 9 | With | with | ADP | _ | 12 hair | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hair | det |
| 11 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hair | amod |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drew | nsubj |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hair | acl:relcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drew | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wigwam | punct |
| 17 | Drew | Drew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wigwam | nsubj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 Drew | iobj |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 wigwam | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 wigwam | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hair | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 bound | punct |
| 24 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 bound | expl |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bound | nsubj |
| 26 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 led | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bound | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 held | punct |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 held | expl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 held | nsubj |
| 31 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 led | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 held | obj |
| 33 | Tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 tresses | advcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 raven | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 raven | nmod:poss |
| 36 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tresses | obl |
| 37 | tresses | tress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 held | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Tied | punct |
| 39 | Tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 tresses | xcomp |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 tangled | cc |
| 41 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 Tied | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 tresses | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 tresses | nmod:poss |
| 44 | tresses | tress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 tangled | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Waub | Son | with a slender hair; with a slender hair and Waub's wigwam Drew Ojeeg | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw | past | Son | Ojeeg | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bind | past | Waub | Ojeeg | there | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 4 | hold | past | Waub | Ojeeg | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | tangle | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | tress | present | Waub not said here | Waub's raven | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | tie | participle | Waub not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | tangle | participle | Waub not said here | Waub's tresses | 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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