Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 163
The clashing of these horny bits makes a sharp, shrill sound something like distant sleigh-bells.
Who acts: clashing · What happens: make · To what, where: sharp shrill sound
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 (clashing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 clashing | det |
| 2 | clashing | clashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bits | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 bits | det |
| 5 | horny | horny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bits | amod |
| 6 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clashing | nmod |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sound | det |
| 9 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sound | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sharp | punct |
| 11 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sound | amod |
| 12 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obj |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 sound | appos |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 bells | case |
| 15 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bells | amod |
| 16 | sleigh | sleigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bells | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 sleigh | punct |
| 18 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 something | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the clashing of this horny bits | a sharp shrill sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
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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