Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 9
Little moccasins she made him, Feathered cap and belt of wampum; From the hide of fawn a blanket, Fringed with feathers soft as sable; Singing at her pleasant labor, By her side the tekenâgun [106] And the little hunter in it.
Who acts: Little moccasins · What happens: make, fringe, sing · To what, where: Gull, hide, blanket, pleasant labor
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 (Little moccasins), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moccasins | amod |
| 2 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cap | punct |
| 7 | Feathered | feathered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cap | amod |
| 8 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 belt | cc |
| 10 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cap | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wampum | case |
| 12 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 belt | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hide | punct |
| 14 | From | from | ADP | _ | 16 hide | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hide | det |
| 16 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fawn | case |
| 18 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hide | nmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 blanket | det |
| 20 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hide | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Fringed | punct |
| 22 | Fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 blanket | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 feathers | case |
| 24 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Fringed | obl |
| 25 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 feathers | amod |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 sable | case |
| 27 | sable | sable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 soft | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 Singing | punct |
| 29 | Singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 made | advcl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 labor | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 labor | nmod:poss |
| 32 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 labor | amod |
| 33 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Singing | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 side | punct |
| 35 | By | by | ADP | _ | 37 side | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 side | nmod:poss |
| 37 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Singing | obl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 tekenâgun | det |
| 39 | tekenâgun | tekenâgun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 side | appos |
| 40 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 41 106 | punct |
| 41 | 106 | 106 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 tekenâgun | appos |
| 42 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 41 106 | punct |
| 43 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 hunter | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 hunter | det |
| 45 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 hunter | amod |
| 46 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 side | conj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 it | case |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 hunter | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Little moccasins | Gull | the hide of fawn and a blanket | Feathered cap and belt of wampum obl; Joyful nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset he=Product from hide=Material | ||
| 2 | fringe | participle | a blanket not said here | with feathers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | Little moccasins not said here | Joyful's pleasant labor | by Joyful's side and the little hunter in hunter | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at labor=Location |
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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