Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 36
As his wife the Spirit holds me; By this silver chain he holds me.
Who acts: Spirit, Chief · What happens: hold · To what, where: me
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 (Spirit, Chief), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 wife | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holds | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Spirit | det |
| 5 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 holds | nsubj |
| 6 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 holds | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 holds | punct |
| 9 | By | by | ADP | _ | 12 chain | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 chain | det |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chain | compound |
| 12 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holds | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 holds | nsubj |
| 14 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 holds | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 holds | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | the Spirit | me | as Chief's wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold | present | Chief | me | by this silver chain | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme by chain=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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