Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 73
[1016] He defies the Winter-maker, Sits and laughs at Winter-maker.
Who acts: lingering · What happens: defy, laugh · To what, where: Winter maker, 1016
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 (lingering), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1016 | punct |
| 2 | 1016 | 1016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1016 | punct |
| 4 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 defies | nsubj |
| 5 | defies | defy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 1016 | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maker | det |
| 7 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 maker | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Winter | punct |
| 9 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 defies | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sits | punct |
| 11 | Sits | Sit | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 maker | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laughs | cc |
| 13 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 defies | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 maker | case |
| 15 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 maker | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Winter | punct |
| 17 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laughs | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 1016 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defy | present | lingering | the Winter maker Sits | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | present | lingering not said here | Winter maker | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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