Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 68
He is a Giant, but can change himself into a buffalo, a bear, a fish or a bird.
Who acts: Footnote · What happens: be, change · To what, where: Footnote, buffalo
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 (Footnote), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Giant | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Giant | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Giant | det |
| 4 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 change | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 change | cc |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 change | aux |
| 8 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 Giant | parataxis |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 change | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 buffalo | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 buffalo | det |
| 12 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 change | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bear | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bear | det |
| 15 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buffalo | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fish | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fish | det |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buffalo | conj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 bird | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bird | det |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buffalo | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Footnote | giant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | can | Footnote | into a buffalo and a bear and a fish or a bird result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into buffalo=Result |
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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