Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 157
Their pretended intercourse with spirits, their powers of magic and divination, and their rites are substantially the same, and point unmistakably to a common origin.
Who acts: pretended intercourse · What happens: pretend, be, point · To what, where: common origin
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 (pretended intercourse), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 intercourse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 intercourse | amod |
| 3 | intercourse | intercourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 same | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 spirits | case |
| 5 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 intercourse | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 powers | punct |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 powers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spirits | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 magic | case |
| 10 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 powers | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 divination | cc |
| 12 | divination | divination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 magic | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 same | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 same | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 rites | nmod:poss |
| 16 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 same | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 same | cop |
| 18 | substantially | substantially | ADV | _ | 20 same | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 same | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 point | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 point | cc |
| 23 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 same | parataxis |
| 24 | unmistakably | unmistakably | ADV | _ | 28 origin | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 origin | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 origin | det |
| 27 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 origin | amod |
| 28 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 point | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | Footnote's pretended intercourse with spirits and Footnote's powers of magic and divination | Footnote's rites nsubj; same, substantially property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | point | infinitive | a common origin | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to origin=Recipient |
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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