Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 112
A smooth place on the prairie, or in winter, on a frozen lake or river, is chosen.
What happens: freeze, choose · To what, where: smooth place
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 place | det |
| 2 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 place | amod |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 prairie | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prairie | det |
| 6 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 place | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 winter | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 winter | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 winter | case |
| 10 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 place | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lake | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 lake | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lake | det |
| 14 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lake | amod |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 place | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 river | cc |
| 17 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lake | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 place | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 chosen | aux:pass |
| 20 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | choose | present · passive | a smooth place on the prairie or winter and a frozen lake or river | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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