Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 34
The first born _son_ is called Chaskè; the second, Hârpam; the third, Hapéda; the fourth, Châtun; the fifth, Hârka.
What happens: bear, call · To what, where: born son _ · 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 _ | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 born | amod |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 _ | amod |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 born | punct |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 _ | compound |
| 6 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | Chaskè | Chaskè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 second | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 second | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 Chaskè | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hârpam | punct |
| 14 | Hârpam | Hârpam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Chaskè | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 third | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 third | det |
| 17 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 called | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Hapéda | punct |
| 19 | Hapéda | Hapéda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 third | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 fourth | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fourth | det |
| 22 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 called | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Châtun | punct |
| 24 | Châtun | Châtun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 fourth | vocative |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 fifth | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fifth | det |
| 27 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 called | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Hârka | punct |
| 29 | Hârka | Hârka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 fifth | vocative |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 son _ | Chaskè and Hârpam xcomp | 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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