Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 124
Old men and mothers are among the spectators praising their swift-footed sons, and young wives and maidens are there to stimulate their husbands and lovers.
Who acts: Old men, spectators, young wives · What happens: be, praise, stimulate · To what, where: footed sons, husbands
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 (Old men, spectators, young wives), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spectators | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mothers | cc |
| 4 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 men | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spectators | cop |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 spectators | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spectators | det |
| 8 | spectators | spectator | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | praising | praise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 spectators | acl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sons | nmod:poss |
| 11 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 footed | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 swift | punct |
| 13 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sons | amod |
| 14 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 praising | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stimulate | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stimulate | cc |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wives | amod |
| 18 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 there | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 maidens | cc |
| 20 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wives | conj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 there | cop |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 stimulate | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 stimulate | mark |
| 24 | stimulate | stimulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 spectators | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 26 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stimulate | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lovers | cc |
| 28 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 husbands | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spectators | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Old men and mothers | among the spectators | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | praise | gerund | the spectators not said here | men's footed sons | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | young wives and maidens | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stimulate | to-infinitive | Old men and mothers not said here | men's husbands and lovers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus husband=Experiencer |
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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