Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 73
By dropping the a before tánka, we have changed the name to _Big Water_.
Who acts: we · What happens: drop, change · To what, where: a, name, Big
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 (we), 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 dropping | mark |
| 2 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 changed | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 a | reparandum |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dropping | obj |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 tánka | case |
| 6 | tánka | tánka | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 dropping | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dropping | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 changed | aux |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 name | det |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Big | case |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 15 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obl |
| 16 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Big | flat |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 changed | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | gerund | we not said here | a | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent a=Theme tánka=Destination | ||||
| 2 | change | present · perfect | we | the name | Big | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
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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