Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 33
From this cliff the treacherous woman Headlong into Gitchee Gumee Plunged the mother of my orphan.
Who acts: treacherous woman · What happens: plunge · To what, where: mother, cliff
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 (treacherous woman), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 cliff | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 cliff | det |
| 3 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Plunged | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | treacherous | treacherous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Plunged | nsubj |
| 7 | Headlong | Headlong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 woman | appos |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 Gitchee | case |
| 9 | Gitchee | Gitchee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 woman | nmod |
| 10 | Gumee | Gumee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Gitchee | flat |
| 11 | Plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mother | det |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Plunged | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 orphan | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 orphan | nmod:poss |
| 16 | orphan | orphan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mother | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Plunged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge | past | the treacherous woman into Gitchee | the mother of my orphan | this cliff | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mother=Extent from cliff=Initial_State |
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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