Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 62
For her robes he brought the sable, Brought the otter and the ermine, Brought the black-fox tipped with silver.
Who acts: father · What happens: bring, tip · To what, where: sable, otter, black fox
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 (father), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 robes | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 robes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sable | det |
| 7 | sable | sable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Brought | punct |
| 9 | Brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 otter | det |
| 11 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Brought | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ermine | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ermine | det |
| 14 | ermine | ermine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 otter | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Brought | punct |
| 16 | Brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fox | det |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fox | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 black | punct |
| 20 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Brought | obj |
| 21 | tipped | tip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 fox | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 silver | case |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tipped | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | father | the sable | for rabbit's robes | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sable=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | past | father not said here | the otter and the ermine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument otter=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | father not said here | the black fox | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fox=Destination | ||||
| 4 | tip | participle | the black fox not said here | with silver | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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