Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 123
If she accepts the proposal, still the suitor must buy her of her parents with suitable gifts.]
Who acts: maiden, suitor · What happens: accept, buy · To what, where: proposal, maiden
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 (maiden, suitor), 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 accepts | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 accepts | nsubj |
| 3 | accepts | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 proposal | det |
| 5 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepts | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 buy | punct |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 buy | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 suitor | det |
| 9 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buy | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 buy | aux |
| 11 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 accepts | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 buy | iobj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 parents | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 parents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 buy | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 gifts | case |
| 17 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gifts | amod |
| 18 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 buy | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepts | punct |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | present | maiden | the proposal | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | buy | must | the suitor | maiden | still | of maiden's parents; with suitable gifts | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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