Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 23
Thus she flashed that I might see her, See and know my mother's spirit; Thus she pointed to the waters, And beneath them lies her body, In the wigwam of the spirits-- In the lodge of Nébe-nâw-baigs."
Who acts: Raven, I, body · What happens: flash, see, know, point, lie · To what, where: Raven, spirit, waters, wigwam
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 (Raven, I, body), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 flashed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flashed | nsubj |
| 3 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 flashed | ccomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 See | punct |
| 10 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 See | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 mother | case |
| 16 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 know | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 pointed | punct |
| 18 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 20 pointed | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pointed | nsubj |
| 20 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flashed | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 waters | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 waters | det |
| 23 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pointed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lies | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lies | cc |
| 26 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lies | obl |
| 28 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flashed | conj |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 body | nmod:poss |
| 30 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lies | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wigwam | punct |
| 32 | In | in | ADP | _ | 34 wigwam | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 wigwam | det |
| 34 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lies | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 spirits | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 spirits | det |
| 37 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 wigwam | nmod |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 lodge | punct |
| 39 | In | in | ADP | _ | 41 lodge | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 lodge | det |
| 41 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lies | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 baigs | case |
| 43 | Nébe | Nébe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 baigs | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 Nébe | punct |
| 45 | nâw | nâw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 baigs | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 nâw | punct |
| 47 | baigs | baig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 lodge | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flashed | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | past | Raven | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | might | I | Raven | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | know | infinitive | I not said here | my mother's spirit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | point | past | Raven | the waters | thus property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to water=Recipient | |||
| 6 | lie | present | Raven's body | the wigwam of the spirits | beneath spirits = spirit; in the lodge of Nébe nâw baigs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath they=Location |
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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