Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 149

It is of the goat kind, smaller than a deer, and so swift that neither horse nor dog can overtake it.

Who acts: cabri, horse · What happens: be, swift, overtake · To what, where: cabri

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 (cabri, horse), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 kind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kind	det
5	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	compound
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 smaller	punct
8	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 kind	amod
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 deer	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 deer	det
11	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smaller	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swift	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 swift	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 swift	advmod
15	swift	swift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 overtake	mark
17	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	18 horse	det
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 overtake	nsubj
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 dog	cc
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 horse	conj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 overtake	aux
22	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 swift	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 overtake	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	cabri		of the goat kind	tree rules
2	swift	infinitive				tree rules
3	overtake	can	neither horse nor dog	cabri		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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 149

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 149