Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 88
225-8, describing the feast to Heyóka.]
What happens: describe · To what, where: feast, 225-8
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 | 225-8 | 225-8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 describing | punct |
| 3 | describing | describe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 225-8 | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feast | det |
| 5 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describing | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Heyóka | case |
| 7 | Heyóka | Heyóka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 feast | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 describing | punct |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 1 225-8 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | gerund | the feast | to Heyóka | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent feast=Theme to heyóka=be' |
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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