Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 115
Stakes are set as bounds at a considerable distance from the centre on either side.
What happens: set · To what, where: Stakes
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 | Stakes | stake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | aux:pass |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 bounds | case |
| 5 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 distance | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 distance | det |
| 8 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 distance | amod |
| 9 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 centre | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 centre | det |
| 12 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 distance | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 side | det |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 centre | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present · passive | Stakes | as bounds; at a considerable distance from the centre on either side | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at distance=Destination |
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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