Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 101
This god dwells in stone or rocks and is they say, the _oldest god of all_--he is grandfather of all living things.
Who acts: god, gods, hé · What happens: dwell, be, live · To what, where: stone, grandfather
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (god, gods, hé), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 god | det |
| 2 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dwells | nsubj |
| 3 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 stone | case |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dwells | obl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 rocks | cc |
| 7 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stone | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 say | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | cop |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 say | nsubj |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dwells | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 god | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 god | det |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 god | punct |
| 15 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 god | amod |
| 16 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 god | nmod |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 all | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 grandfather | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grandfather | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 grandfather | cop |
| 23 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 god | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 things | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 things | det |
| 26 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 things | amod |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 grandfather | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dwells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present | this god | stone or rocks | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stone=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | gods = god | the oldest god of all and grandfather obl; say property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | hé | grandfather | of all living things | tree rules | |||
| 4 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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