Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 78
The squirrel chatters from his seat: the bag-pipe beetle hums and drones.
Who acts: squirrel · What happens: chatter · To what, where: beetle hums, seat
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 (squirrel), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 squirrel | det |
| 2 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chatters | nsubj |
| 3 | chatters | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 seat | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 seat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chatters | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 hums | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hums | det |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pipe | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bag | punct |
| 11 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beetle | compound |
| 12 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hums | compound |
| 13 | hums | hum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chatters | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drones | cc |
| 15 | drones | drone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hums | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chatters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chatter | present | the squirrel | the beetle hums and drones | squirrel's seat | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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