Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 63
The "wa-ta-pe" kettle is made of the fibrous roots of the white cedar, interlaced and tightly woven.
What happens: make, interlace, weave · To what, where: pe kettle
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 | 9 kettle | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pe | punct |
| 3 | wa | wa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ta | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wa | punct |
| 5 | ta | ta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pe | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 pe | punct |
| 7 | pe | pe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kettle | compound |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pe | punct |
| 9 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 roots | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 roots | det |
| 14 | fibrous | fibrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 roots | amod |
| 15 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cedar | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cedar | det |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cedar | amod |
| 19 | cedar | cedar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roots | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 interlaced | punct |
| 21 | interlaced | interlace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 made | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 woven | cc |
| 23 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 24 woven | advmod |
| 24 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 interlaced | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | the pe kettle | of the fibrous roots of the white cedar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | interlace | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | weave | participle | tightly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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