Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 32
The first-born _daughter_ of a Dakota is called Winona; the second, Hârpen; the third, Hârpstinâ; the fourth.
What happens: bear, call · To what, where: born daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 born | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 first | punct |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 daughter | amod |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Dakota | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Dakota | det |
| 10 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 second | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 second | det |
| 16 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 called | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hârpen | punct |
| 18 | Hârpen | Hârpen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 second | vocative |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 third | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 third | det |
| 21 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 called | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Hârpstinâ | punct |
| 23 | Hârpstinâ | Hârpstinâ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 third | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 fourth | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fourth | det |
| 26 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present · passive | the born daughter of a Dakota | Winona xcomp; the fourth parataxis | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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