Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 101
[Footnote 28: The spirit of Anpétu-sâpa that haunts the Falls of St. Anthony with her dead babe in her arms.
Who acts: Anpétu sâpa · What happens: haunt · To what, where: Falls, Footnote
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anpétu sâpa), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 spirit | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spirit | det |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sâpa | case |
| 8 | Anpétu | Anpétu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sâpa | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Anpétu | punct |
| 10 | sâpa | sâpa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spirit | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 haunts | nsubj |
| 12 | haunts | haunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sâpa | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Falls | det |
| 14 | Falls | Falls | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 haunts | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Anthony | case |
| 16 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Anthony | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Falls | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 babe | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 babe | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 babe | amod |
| 21 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 haunts | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 arms | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 arms | nmod:poss |
| 24 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 babe | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haunt | present | Anpétu sâpa | the Falls of Anthony St. | with Anthony's dead babe in Anthony's arms | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus falls=Experiencer |
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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