Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 125
[Footnote 33: Pronounced Tah-tâhn-kah--Bison or Buffalo.]
What happens: pronounce · To what, where: Tah, 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: 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 | 33 | 33 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Pronounced | punct |
| 5 | Pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 kah | amod |
| 6 | Tah | Tah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Pronounced | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tah | punct |
| 8 | tâhn | tâhn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kah | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tâhn | punct |
| 10 | kah | kah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bison | punct |
| 12 | Bison | Bison | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 kah | appos |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 Buffalo | cc |
| 14 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bison | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 16 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | participle | Tah | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent tah=Result |
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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