Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 113
Each player has a sort of bat, called "Tâ-kée-cha-psé-cha," about thirty two inches long with a hoop at the lower end four or five inches in diameter, interlaced with thongs of deer-skin, forming a sort of pocket.
Who acts: player, Tâ · What happens: have, call, cha, interlace, form, sort · To what, where: sort, five inches, bat, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (player, Tâ), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 player | det |
| 2 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sort | det |
| 5 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bat | case |
| 7 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sort | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sort | acl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tâ | punct |
| 11 | Tâ | Tâ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 cha | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tâ | punct |
| 13 | kée | kée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Tâ | appos |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 kée | punct |
| 15 | cha | cha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Tâ | appos |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 cha | punct |
| 17 | psé | psé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cha | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 psé | punct |
| 19 | cha | cha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 thirty | case |
| 23 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 inches | nummod |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 inches | nummod |
| 25 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 long | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 has | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 hoop | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hoop | det |
| 29 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 long | obl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 end | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 end | det |
| 32 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 end | amod |
| 33 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hoop | nmod |
| 34 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 end | flat |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 inches | cc |
| 36 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 inches | nummod |
| 37 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 end | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 diameter | case |
| 39 | diameter | diameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 inches | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 interlaced | punct |
| 41 | interlaced | interlace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 inches | acl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 thongs | case |
| 43 | thongs | thong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 interlaced | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 skin | case |
| 45 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 skin | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 deer | punct |
| 47 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 thongs | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 forming | punct |
| 49 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 interlaced | advcl |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 sort | det |
| 51 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 forming | obj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 pocket | case |
| 53 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 sort | nmod | ||
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | each player | a sort of bat | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient | |||
| 2 | call speech: assert | participle | a sort of bat not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cha in a quote | Tâ | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | interlace | participle | five inches in diameter not said here | with thongs of deer skin | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with thong=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | form | gerund | a sort of pocket | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sort=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sort | bat | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | sort | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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