Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 149
At a little distance from this dreary cavern is the burying-place of several bands of the Naudowessie (Dakota) Indians."
What happens: be · To what, where: burying place
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 distance | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 distance | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 distance | amod |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 cavern | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 cavern | det |
| 7 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cavern | amod |
| 8 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distance | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 place | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 11 | burying | burying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 burying | punct |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bands | case |
| 15 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bands | amod |
| 16 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 place | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Naudowessie | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Naudowessie | det |
| 19 | Naudowessie | Naudowessie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bands | nmod |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 Dakota | punct |
| 21 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Indians | compound |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 Dakota | punct |
| 23 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Naudowessie | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 place | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the burying place | at a little distance from this dreary cavern; of several bands of the Naudowessie and Dakota Indians | 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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