Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 58
Ah, the best of men are tangled-- Sometime tangled in the tresses Of a fair and crafty woman.
What happens: tangle · To what, where: best men, 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: 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 best | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 best | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 men | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tangled | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tangled | aux:pass |
| 8 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 tangled | punct |
| 10 | Sometime | sometime | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 tangled | advmod |
| 11 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tangled | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tresses | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tresses | det |
| 14 | tresses | tress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tangled | obl |
| 15 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 20 woman | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 crafty | cc |
| 19 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fair | conj |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tresses | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tangled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tangle | present · passive | best men | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tangle | participle | the tresses of a fair woman | sometime property | 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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