Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 112
The Dakota god of the woods--an unknown animal said to resemble a man, which the Dakotas worship; perhaps, the monkey."
Who acts: unknown animal, Dakotas · What happens: say, resemble, worship · To what, where: monkey, man, Dakota god · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (unknown animal, Dakotas), 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 | 3 god | det |
| 2 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 god | compound |
| 3 | god | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 woods | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woods | det |
| 6 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 god | nmod |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 animal | det |
| 9 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 animal | amod |
| 10 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 god | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 resemble | mark |
| 13 | resemble | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 resemble | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 worship | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 worship | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Dakotas | det |
| 19 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 worship | nsubj |
| 20 | worship | worship | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 monkey | punct |
| 22 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 25 monkey | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 perhaps | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 monkey | det |
| 25 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a unknown animal | the monkey | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | resemble | to-infinitive | a unknown animal not said here | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | worship | present | the Dakotas | a man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=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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