Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 110
All life is _Wakan_; so also is everything which exhibits power, whether in action as the winds and drifting clouds; or in passive endurance, as the boulder by the wayside.
What happens: be, exhibit, drift · To what, where: everything, power, life
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: 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 life | det |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 _ | cop |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
| 5 | Wakan | Wakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 _ | flat |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wakan | punct |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 so | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 life | parataxis |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 everything | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 everything | cop |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 so | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 exhibits | nsubj |
| 13 | exhibits | exhibit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 everything | acl:relcl |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exhibits | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 action | punct |
| 16 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 18 action | mark |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 action | case |
| 18 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exhibits | parataxis |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 winds | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 winds | det |
| 21 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 action | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 clouds | cc |
| 23 | drifting | drift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 clouds | amod |
| 24 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 winds | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 endurance | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 endurance | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 endurance | case |
| 28 | passive | passive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 endurance | amod |
| 29 | endurance | endurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 action | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 boulder | punct |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 boulder | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 boulder | det |
| 33 | boulder | boulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 action | conj |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 wayside | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wayside | det |
| 36 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 boulder | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | everything | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exhibit | present | power | which nsubj; action as the winds and drifting clouds or passive endurance and the boulder by the wayside parataxis | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drift | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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