Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 135
In the days that are no more, they lighted their Council-fires in this cave, and buried their dead near it.
Who acts: days, lodge · What happens: not be, light, bury, fire · To what, where: Council fires, cave, dead, fire
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 (days, lodge), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lighted | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 more | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 more | cop |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 days | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lighted | nsubj |
| 10 | lighted | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fires | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fires | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Council | punct |
| 14 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lighted | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cave | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 cave | det |
| 17 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lighted | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 buried | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 buried | cc |
| 20 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lighted | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dead | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 buried | obj |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 buried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | the days | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | light | past | lodge | lodge's Council fires | this cave | day | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||
| 3 | bury | past | lodge not said here | lodge's dead | fire | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme near it=Destination | |||
| 4 | fire | lodge | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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