Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 139

Those who conduct the game cry at the top of their voices when they rattle the platter and they strike their shoulders so hard as to leave them all black with the blows."]

Who acts: Those, stone · What happens: conduct, rattle, strike, leave · To what, where: game cry, top, platter, shoulders, stone

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 (Those, 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 conduct	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 conduct	nsubj
3	conduct	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cry	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	compound
6	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conduct	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 top	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conduct	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 voices	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 voices	nmod:poss
12	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 top	nmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 rattle	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rattle	nsubj
15	rattle	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 conduct	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 platter	det
17	platter	platter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rattle	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 strike	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 strike	nsubj
20	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 conduct	conj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shoulders	nmod:poss
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 strike	obj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 hard	advmod
24	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 strike	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 leave	mark
26	to	to	PART	_	27 leave	mark
27	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 strike	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 leave	obj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 black	det
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 leave	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 blows	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 blows	det
33	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 leave	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 conduct	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 conduct	punct
36	]	]	PUNCT	_	3 conduct	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	conduct	present	Those	the game cry	the top of stone's voices	who nsubj	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cry=Theme at top=Destination
2	rattle	present	stone	the platter			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent platter=Theme
3	strike	present	stone	stone's shoulders		hard property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient
4	leave	to-infinitive	stone not said here	stone		with the blows	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme black=Attribute

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 139

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 139