Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 30
Thrice was wound a chain of silver Round her waist and strongly fastened.
What happens: woun, fasten · To what, where: Thrice
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 | Thrice | Thrice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wound | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wound | aux:pass |
| 3 | wound | woun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chain | det |
| 5 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wound | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 silver | case |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chain | nmod |
| 8 | Round | round | ADP | _ | 10 waist | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 waist | nmod:poss |
| 10 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wound | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fastened | cc |
| 12 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 13 fastened | advmod |
| 13 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wound | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | woun | past · passive | Thrice | round Thrice's waist; a chain of silver obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fasten | participle | strongly property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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