Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 169
[Footnote 48: The "Sacred Ring" around the feast of the Virgins is formed by armed warriors sitting, and none but a virgin must enter this ring.
Who acts: armed warriors, none · What happens: form, sit, enter · To what, where: Footnote, ring
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 (armed warriors, none), 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 | 17 formed | nsubj |
| 3 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ring | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ring | det |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ring | punct |
| 7 | Sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Ring | amod |
| 8 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ring | punct |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 feast | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 feast | det |
| 12 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Virgins | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Virgins | det |
| 15 | Virgins | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 feast | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 formed | aux:pass |
| 17 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 warriors | case |
| 19 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 warriors | amod |
| 20 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 formed | obl |
| 21 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 warriors | acl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 enter | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 enter | cc |
| 24 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 29 enter | nsubj |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 virgin | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 virgin | det |
| 27 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 none | conj |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 enter | aux |
| 29 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 formed | parataxis |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 ring | det |
| 31 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 enter | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present · passive | armed warriors | Footnote around the feast of the Virgins | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | armed warriors not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | enter | must | none a virgin | this ring | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ring=Destination |
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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