Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 63
Evermore the happy hunter Loved the mother of his children.
Who acts: Evermore · What happens: love · To what, where: mother
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 (Evermore), 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 | Evermore | Evermore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Loved | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hunter | det |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hunter | amod |
| 4 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Evermore | appos |
| 5 | Loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mother | det |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Loved | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 children | nmod:poss |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mother | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Evermore | the mother of Evermore's children | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=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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