Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 123
Not unfrequently horses are staked on the issue, and sometimes even women.
What happens: stake · To what, where: horses, issue
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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 horses | advmod |
| 2 | unfrequently | unfrequently | ADV | _ | 3 horses | advmod |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 staked | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 staked | aux:pass |
| 5 | staked | stake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 issue | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 issue | det |
| 8 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 staked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 women | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 women | cc |
| 11 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 women | advmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 women | advmod |
| 13 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 staked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 staked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stake | present · passive | horses | the issue | women obl | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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