Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 15
This lake was discovered by DuLuth, and by him named Lac Buade, in honor of Governor Frontenac of Canada, whose familyname was Buade.
Who acts: DuLuth, familyname · What happens: discover, name, be, honor · To what, where: lake, DuLuth, honor, Buade, Frontenac
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 (DuLuth, familyname), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 lake | det |
| 2 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 discovered | aux:pass |
| 4 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 DuLuth | case |
| 6 | DuLuth | DuLuth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 discovered | obl:agent |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 named | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 named | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 named | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 discovered | conj |
| 12 | Lac | Lac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 named | xcomp |
| 13 | Buade | Buade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lac | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 honor | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 honor | case |
| 16 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 named | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Frontenac | case |
| 18 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Frontenac | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Frontenac | Frontenac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 honor | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Canada | case |
| 21 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Frontenac | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Buade | punct |
| 23 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 familyname | nmod:poss |
| 24 | familyname | familyname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Buade | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 Buade | cop |
| 26 | Buade | Buade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Frontenac | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past · passive | DuLuth | this lake | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | name | participle · passive | DuLuth | honor of Frontenac Governor of Canada and Buade | Lac xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | past | Buade's familyname | Buade | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | honor | Frontenac Governor of Canada and Buade | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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