Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 27
For a part of the foregoing information I am indebted to Gen. H. H. Sibley.
What happens: indebt · To what, where: I, H. H. Sibley
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 part | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 information | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 information | det |
| 6 | foregoing | foregoing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 information | compound |
| 7 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 indebted | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 indebted | aux:pass |
| 10 | indebted | indebt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 information | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Sibley | case |
| 12 | Gen. | Gen. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 H. | nmod:desc |
| 13 | H. | H. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sibley | compound |
| 14 | H. | H. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sibley | compound |
| 15 | Sibley | Sibley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 indebted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indebt | present · passive | I | H. H. Sibley | 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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