Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 86
Barbarous peoples of all times have regarded the East with superstitious reverence, simply because the sun rises in that quarter.]
Who acts: Barbarous peoples, sun · What happens: regard, rise · To what, where: East, quarter
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 (Barbarous peoples, sun), 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 | Barbarous | barbarous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 peoples | amod |
| 2 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 regarded | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 times | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 times | det |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 peoples | nmod |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 regarded | aux |
| 7 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 East | det |
| 9 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 regarded | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 reverence | case |
| 11 | superstitious | superstitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reverence | amod |
| 12 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 East | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rises | punct |
| 14 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 18 rises | advmod |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 rises | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sun | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rises | nsubj |
| 18 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 regarded | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 quarter | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 quarter | det |
| 21 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rises | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 regarded | punct |
| 23 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 regarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | present · perfect | Barbarous peoples of all times | the East | with superstitious reverence | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent east=Theme | |||
| 2 | rise | present | the sun | that quarter | simply property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in quarter=Location |
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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