Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 24
Wakínyan Tânka.--Big Thunder, was killed by the accidental discharge of his own gun.
Who acts: accidental discharge · What happens: kill, discharge · To what, where: Wakínyan, own gun
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 (accidental discharge), 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 | Wakínyan | Wakínyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Tânka | Tânka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wakínyan | flat |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wakínyan | punct |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 Thunder | punct |
| 5 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Thunder | flat |
| 6 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wakínyan | list |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wakínyan | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | aux:pass |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 discharge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 discharge | det |
| 12 | accidental | accidental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 discharge | amod |
| 13 | discharge | discharge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gun | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 gun | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gun | amod |
| 17 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discharge | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | the accidental discharge of Thunder's own gun | Wakínyan Big Thunder | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | discharge | Thunder's own gun | nom discharge «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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