Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 7
But in Spring the god of the South, having renewed his youth and strength, in the "Happy Hunting Grounds," is able to drive Wa-zí-ya back again to his icy wigwam in the North.
What happens: renew, be, drive · To what, where: god, Happy Hunting Grounds, Wa zí ya, icy wigwam
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 renewed | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Spring | case |
| 3 | Spring | Spring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 renewed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 god | det |
| 5 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 renewed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 South | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 South | det |
| 8 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 god | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 having | punct |
| 10 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 renewed | aux |
| 11 | renewed | renew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 able | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 youth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 renewed | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 strength | cc |
| 15 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 youth | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Grounds | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Grounds | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Grounds | det |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Grounds | punct |
| 20 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Grounds | amod |
| 21 | Hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Grounds | compound |
| 22 | Grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 renewed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Grounds | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 renewed | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 able | cop |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 drive | mark |
| 28 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | Wa | Wa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 ya | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wa | punct |
| 31 | zí | zí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ya | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 zí | punct |
| 33 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drive | obj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 drive | advmod |
| 35 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 drive | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 wigwam | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 38 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 wigwam | amod |
| 39 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drive | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 North | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 North | det |
| 42 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 wigwam | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | renew | gerund · perfect · passive | the god of the South | the Happy Hunting Grounds | in Spring | ga's youth and strength obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | present | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive | Wa zí ya | ga's icy wigwam in the North | again | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ya=Theme to wigwam=Trajectory |
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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