Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 25
They were both buried with their kindred near the "Wakan Teepee," the sacred Cave--(Carver's Cave).
What happens: bury · To what, where: Wakínyan, Wakan Teepee
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 buried | aux:pass |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 buried | advmod |
| 4 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 kindred | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 kindred | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kindred | kindred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 buried | obl |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 Teepee | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Teepee | det |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Teepee | punct |
| 11 | Wakan | Wakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Teepee | compound |
| 12 | Teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Cave | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Cave | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Cave | det |
| 16 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Cave | amod |
| 17 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Teepee | nmod |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 Cave | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Cave | punct |
| 20 | Carver | Carver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Cave | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Carver | case |
| 22 | Cave | Cave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Cave | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Cave | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past · passive | Wakínyan | the Wakan Teepee the sacred Cave | with Wakínyan's kindred; both property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme near teepee=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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