Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 133
Hennepin was the first to describe this game in his "Description de la Louisiane," Paris, 1683, and he describes it very accurately.
Who acts: Hennepin · What happens: be, describe · To what, where: game, Description
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 (Hennepin), 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 | Hennepin | Hennepin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 first | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 first | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 first | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 describe | mark |
| 6 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 first | acl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 game | det |
| 8 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 describe | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Description | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Description | nmod:poss |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Description | punct |
| 12 | Description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 describe | obl |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 Description | flat:foreign |
| 14 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 Description | conj |
| 15 | Louisiane | Louisiane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 la | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Paris | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Paris | punct |
| 18 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Louisiane | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 1683 | punct |
| 20 | 1683 | 1683 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 Paris | list |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 describes | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 describes | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 describes | nsubj |
| 24 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 first | parataxis |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 describes | obj |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 accurately | advmod |
| 27 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 24 describes | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hennepin | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | describe | to-infinitive | this game | Hennepin's Description | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent game=Theme | ||||
| 3 | describe | present | Hennepin | game | accurately property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | describe in a quote | Hennepin | nom description «communication transitive»: poss=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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