Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 73
The chiefs and the leading warriors usually belong to the secret order of "Medicine-men," or "Sons of Unktéhee"--the Spirit of the Waters.]
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: lead, belong, order · To what, where: Medicine men
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 (chiefs), 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 | 2 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 belong | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 warriors | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 warriors | det |
| 5 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 warriors | amod |
| 6 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chiefs | conj |
| 7 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 8 belong | advmod |
| 8 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 order | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 order | det |
| 11 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 order | amod |
| 12 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 belong | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 men | punct |
| 15 | Medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 men | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Medicine | punct |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 order | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 men | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 men | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 Sons | cc |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Sons | punct |
| 22 | Sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 men | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Unktéhee | case |
| 24 | Unktéhee | Unktéhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Sons | nmod |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Unktéhee | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 Spirit | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Spirit | det |
| 28 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Unktéhee | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Waters | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Waters | det |
| 31 | Waters | Water | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 Spirit | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 belong | punct |
| 33 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | belong | present | the chiefs and the leading warriors | to the secret order of Medicine men or Sons of Unktéhee; usually property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | order | Medicine men or Sons of Unktéhee | nom order «communication transitive»: of=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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