Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 13
[Footnote 54: The Dakotas cail the Evening Star the "_Virgin Star_," and believe it to be the spirit of the virgin wronged at the feast.]
What happens: believe, be, wrong · To what, where: Star, spirit, virgin, feast, Footnote · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 54 | 54 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 cail | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cail | det |
| 6 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cail | compound |
| 7 | cail | cail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Star | det |
| 9 | Evening | Evening | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Star | compound |
| 10 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cail | appos |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Star | det |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Star | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Star | punct |
| 14 | Virgin | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Star | compound |
| 15 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Star | appos |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Star | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Star | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Star | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 believe | cc |
| 20 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cail | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 believe | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 spirit | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 spirit | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spirit | det |
| 25 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 believe | ccomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 virgin | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 virgin | det |
| 28 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spirit | nmod |
| 29 | wronged | wrong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 virgin | acl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 feast | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 feast | det |
| 32 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wronged | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 34 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | infinitive | Star | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the spirit | of the virgin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wrong | participle | the virgin not said here | the feast | tree rules |
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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