Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 46
Now through all her fair disguises Panther saw an evil spirit, Saw the false heart of the woman.
Who acts: Panther · What happens: disguise, see · To what, where: evil spirit, false heart
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 (Panther), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 disguises | advmod |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 disguises | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 disguises | det:predet |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 all | conj |
| 6 | disguises | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 disguises | ccomp |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 spirit | det |
| 10 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spirit | amod |
| 11 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Saw | punct |
| 13 | Saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heart | det |
| 15 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 heart | amod |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Saw | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 woman | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heart | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 disguises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | present | now | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Panther | a evil spirit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Panther not said here | the false heart of the woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus |
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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