Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 120

His teepee has four openings, at each of which is a sentinel; at the east, a butterfly; at the west, a bear; at the south, a red deer; at the north, a caribou.

Who acts: teepee · What happens: have, be · To what, where: four openings, each

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 (teepee), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teepee	nmod:poss
2	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 openings	nummod
5	openings	opening	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 each	punct
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 openings	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 sentinel	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 sentinel	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sentinel	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sentinel	det
13	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 each	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 east	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 east	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 east	det
17	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 butterfly	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 butterfly	det
20	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 east	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 west	punct
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 west	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 west	det
24	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bear	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bear	det
27	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 west	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 south	punct
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 south	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 south	det
31	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 deer	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 deer	det
34	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 deer	amod
35	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 south	conj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 north	punct
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 north	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 north	det
39	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 south	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 caribou	punct
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 caribou	det
42	caribou	caribou	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 south	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	bird's teepee	four openings		each		the east and a butterfly obj; the west and a bear parataxis; the south and a red deer and the north and a caribou parataxis	tree rules
2	is	present						of a sentinel; which nsubj	tree rules

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 120

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 120