Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 121
He has a bitter enmity against Unktéhee (god of waters) and often shoots his fiery arrows at him, and hits the earth, trees, rocks, and sometimes men.
Who acts: teepee · What happens: have, shoot, hit · To what, where: bitter enmity, fiery arrows, earth
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 enmity | det |
| 4 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 enmity | amod |
| 5 | enmity | enmity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 Unktéhee | case |
| 7 | Unktéhee | Unktéhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 enmity | nmod |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 god | punct |
| 9 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enmity | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 waters | case |
| 11 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 god | nmod |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 god | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shoots | cc |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 shoots | advmod |
| 15 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 arrows | amod |
| 18 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shoots | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shoots | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hits | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hits | cc |
| 23 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 earth | det |
| 25 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hits | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 trees | punct |
| 27 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 earth | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rocks | punct |
| 29 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 earth | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 men | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 men | cc |
| 32 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 33 men | advmod |
| 33 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hits | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | teepee | a bitter enmity | against Unktéhee | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enmity=Patient | |||
| 2 | shoot | present | teepee not said here | teepee's fiery arrows | at teepee; often property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at he=Destination | |||
| 3 | hit | present | the earth and trees and rocks | men obl | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme |
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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