Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 39
Therefore Wâpasa means the Standard--and not the "Leaf-Shaker," as many writers have it.
Who acts: Wâpasa, many writers · What happens: mean, have · To what, where: Standard, Leaf Shaker
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 (Wâpasa, many writers), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 means | advmod |
| 2 | Wâpasa | Wâpasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Standard | det |
| 5 | Standard | Standard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 means | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 Shaker | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Shaker | det |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Shaker | punct |
| 11 | Leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Shaker | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Shaker | punct |
| 13 | Shaker | Shaker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Shaker | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 writers | amod |
| 18 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Wâpasa | the Standard | therefore property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Topic | |||
| 2 | have | present | many writers | the Leaf Shaker | Standard obj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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