Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 156
In their rites, ceremonies, tricks and pretensions they closely resemble the Dactyli, Idæ and Curetes of the ancient Greeks and Romans, the Magi of the Persians, and the Druids of Britain.
Who acts: Footnote · What happens: resemble · To what, where: Dactyli, rites
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 (Footnote), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 rites | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 rites | nmod:poss |
| 3 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 resemble | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ceremonies | punct |
| 5 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rites | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tricks | punct |
| 7 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rites | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pretensions | cc |
| 9 | pretensions | pretension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rites | conj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 resemble | nsubj |
| 11 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 12 resemble | advmod |
| 12 | resemble | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Dactyli | det |
| 14 | Dactyli | Dactyli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 resemble | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Idæ | punct |
| 16 | Idæ | Idæ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Dactyli | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Curetes | cc |
| 18 | Curetes | Curetes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Dactyli | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Greeks | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Greeks | det |
| 21 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Greeks | amod |
| 22 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 Curetes | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Romans | cc |
| 24 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Dactyli | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Magi | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Magi | det |
| 27 | Magi | Magi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Dactyli | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Persians | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Persians | det |
| 30 | Persians | Persian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 Magi | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Druids | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Druids | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Druids | det |
| 34 | Druids | druid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 resemble | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Britain | case |
| 36 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Druids | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 resemble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resemble | present | Footnote | the Dactyli and Idæ and Curetes of the ancient Greeks and Romans and the Magi of the Persians | Footnote's rites and ceremonies and tricks and pretensions | the Druids of Britain obl; closely property | 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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