Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 122
Even then the maiden is often bought of her parents or guardian, and forced to become the wife of the rejected suitor.
What happens: buy, force, become, reject · To what, where: maiden, wife
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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 bought | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bought | aux:pass |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 bought | advmod |
| 7 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 parents | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 parents | nmod:poss |
| 10 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bought | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 guardian | cc |
| 12 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 parents | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forced | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forced | cc |
| 15 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bought | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 become | mark |
| 17 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 forced | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wife | det |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 become | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 suitor | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 suitor | det |
| 22 | rejected | reject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 suitor | amod |
| 23 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wife | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | present · passive | the maiden | then | of p.'s parents or guardian; often property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | become | to-infinitive | the wife of the rejected suitor | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | reject | participle | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: 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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