Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 96
The proposed husband usually gives a horse or its, value in other articles to the father or natural guardian of the woman selected--sometimes against her will.
Who acts: proposed husband, woman, way · What happens: propose, give, select, value · To what, where: horse, natural guardian, other articles
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 (proposed husband, woman, way), 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 | 3 husband | det |
| 2 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 husband | amod |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 gives | advmod |
| 5 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gives | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 value | cc |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 value | nmod:poss |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 value | punct |
| 11 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 horse | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 articles | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 articles | amod |
| 14 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 value | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 father | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 father | det |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 articles | nmod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 guardian | cc |
| 19 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 guardian | amod |
| 20 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 father | conj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 selected | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woman | det |
| 23 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 selected | nsubj |
| 24 | selected | select | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 guardian | acl:relcl |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 will | punct |
| 26 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 will | advmod |
| 27 | against | against | ADP | _ | 29 will | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 will | nmod:poss |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 selected | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | give | present | the proposed husband | a horse or way's value in other articles to the father or natural guardian | usually property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 3 | select | past | the woman | natural guardian not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guardian=Theme | ||||
| 4 | value | way | other articles to the father or natural guardian | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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