Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 120
If she blows out the light, he is accepted; if she covers her head and leaves it burning, he is rejected.
Who acts: p., head · What happens: blow out, accept, cover, leave, burn, reject · To what, where: light, maid, head
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 (p., head), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 blows | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blows | nsubj |
| 3 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 accepted | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 blows | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blows | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 blows | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 accepted | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 accepted | aux:pass |
| 10 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 covers | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 covers | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 covers | nsubj |
| 14 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 accepted | parataxis |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 covers | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 leaves | cc |
| 18 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 covers | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 leaves | obj |
| 20 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 leaves | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rejected | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 rejected | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 rejected | aux:pass |
| 24 | rejected | reject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 accepted | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow out a condition, not said to happen | present | p. | the light | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent light=Patient | ||||
| 2 | accept | present · passive | maid | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cover a condition, not said to happen | present | p. | p.'s head | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Destination | ||||
| 4 | leave | present | p. not said here | head | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | burn | gerund | head not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | reject | present · passive | maid | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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