Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 25
Then spoke Panther to the Raven: "On the tall cliff by the waters Wait and watch with Waub-omeé-meé.
What happens: speak, wait, watch · To what, where: Panther, tall cliff · 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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Raven | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Raven | det |
| 6 | Raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Wait | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Wait | punct |
| 9 | On | on | ADP | _ | 12 cliff | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cliff | det |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cliff | amod |
| 12 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Wait | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 waters | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 waters | det |
| 15 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cliff | nmod |
| 16 | Wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 watch | cc |
| 18 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Wait | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 meé | case |
| 20 | Waub | Waub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 meé | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Waub | punct |
| 22 | omeé | omeé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 meé | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 omeé | punct |
| 24 | meé | meé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 watch | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Panther | then | to the Raven | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wait in a quote | present | the tall cliff by the waters | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cliff=Location | |||||
| 3 | watch in a quote | present | with Waub omeé meé | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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