Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 118
[Footnote 75: When a Dakota brave wishes to "propose" to a "dusky maid", he visits her teepee at night after she has retired, or rather, laid down in her robe to sleep.
Who acts: Dakota brave wishes, maid, p. · What happens: propose, visit, retire, lay down, sleep · To what, where: dusky maid, teepee, robe, Footnote
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 (Dakota brave wishes, maid, p.), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 75 | 75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 propose | punct |
| 5 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 propose | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wishes | det |
| 7 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wishes | compound |
| 8 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wishes | amod |
| 9 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 propose | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 propose | mark |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 propose | punct |
| 12 | propose | propose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Footnote | parataxis |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 propose | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 maid | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 maid | det |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 maid | punct |
| 17 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 maid | amod |
| 18 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 propose | obl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 maid | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 visits | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 visits | nsubj |
| 22 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 propose | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 24 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 visits | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 night | case |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 visits | obl |
| 27 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 30 retired | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 retired | nsubj |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 retired | aux |
| 30 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 visits | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 laid | punct |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 laid | cc |
| 33 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 35 laid | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rather | punct |
| 35 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 retired | conj |
| 36 | down | down | ADP | _ | 35 laid | compound:prt |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 robe | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 robe | nmod:poss |
| 39 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 laid | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 sleep | mark |
| 41 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 laid | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose in a quote | to-infinitive | a Dakota brave wishes | a dusky maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maid=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | visit | present | maid | p.'s teepee | night | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teepee=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | retire | present · perfect | p. | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lay down | participle | p. not said here | p.'s robe | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in robe=Destination | ||||
| 5 | sleep | to-infinitive | p. not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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