Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 114
Hennepin writes his name Ouasicoudé and translates it--the "Pierced Pine."
Who acts: Hennepin · What happens: write, translate, pierce, name · To what, where: name
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 (Hennepin), 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 | Hennepin | Hennepin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 writes | nsubj |
| 2 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 writes | obj |
| 5 | | | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ouasicoudé | punct |
| 6 | Ouasicoudé | Ouasicoudé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 name | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 translates | cc |
| 8 | translates | translate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 writes | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 translates | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Pine | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Pine | det |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Pierced | punct |
| 13 | Pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Pine | amod |
| 14 | Pine | Pine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 translates | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 writes | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 writes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | Hennepin | Hennepin's name | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 2 | translate | present | Hennepin not said here | name | the Pierced Pine obl | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | pierce in a quote | participle | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | name | Hennepin | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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