Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 89
Next himself old Péboân honored; Thrice he puffed his pipe and passed it, Passed it to the handsome stranger.
Who acts: Péboân, Thrice · What happens: honor, puff, pass · To what, where: pipe, handsome stranger
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 (Péboân, Thrice), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 5 honored | advmod |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 honored | nsubj |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Péboân | amod |
| 4 | Péboân | Péboân | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 himself | conj |
| 5 | honored | honor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 puffed | punct |
| 7 | Thrice | Thrice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 puffed | nsubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 puffed | nsubj |
| 9 | puffed | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 honored | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 puffed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 passed | cc |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 puffed | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 passed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Passed | punct |
| 16 | Passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 puffed | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Passed | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 stranger | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stranger | det |
| 20 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stranger | amod |
| 21 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Passed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 honored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honor | past | Péboân | next property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | puff | past | Thrice | Péboân's pipe | Péboân nsubj | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pipe=Source | |||
| 3 | pass | past | Thrice not said here | pipe | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | pass | past | Thrice not said here | pipe | the handsome stranger | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to stranger=Recipient |
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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