Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 42
Hateful to his heart was Red Fox, But he kept from her the secret-- Kept his knowledge of the murder.
Who acts: Hateful · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: secret, knowledge
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 (Hateful), 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 | Hateful | Hateful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fox | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Fox | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Fox | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Fox | cop |
| 6 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Fox | amod |
| 7 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 9 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 kept | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Fox | parataxis |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kept | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 secret | det |
| 15 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | xcomp |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Kept | punct |
| 17 | Kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kept | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 19 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Kept | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 murder | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 murder | det |
| 22 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knowledge | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hateful | to Red Fox; Hateful's heart nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | Hateful | the secret | from Fox | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from she=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | keep | past | Hateful not said here | Hateful's knowledge of the murder | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme |
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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