Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 138
Hennepin says: "There are some so given to this game that they will gamble away even their great coat.
Who acts: Hennepin, some, stone · What happens: say, be, give, gamble away · To what, where: game, great coat · 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: who acts (Hennepin, some, stone), 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 | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 are | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 are | punct |
| 5 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 are | expl |
| 6 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 are | nsubj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 given | advmod |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 are | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 game | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 game | det |
| 12 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 gamble | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gamble | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 gamble | aux |
| 16 | gamble | gamble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 game | acl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 gamble | advmod |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 coat | advmod |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 coat | nmod:poss |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 coat | amod |
| 21 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gamble | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Hennepin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | some | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | participle | some not said here | this game | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to game=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | gamble away in a quote | future | stone | stone's great coat | away property | vn risk-94 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Pivot |
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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