Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 167
The skin covering is stretched over one end making a drum with one end only.
What happens: stretch, make · To what, where: skin covering, one end, drum
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: 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 | 3 covering | det |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covering | compound |
| 3 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stretched | aux:pass |
| 5 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 end | nummod |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stretched | obl |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stretched | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 drum | det |
| 11 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 making | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 end | nummod |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 making | obl |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 end | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | present · passive | the skin covering | over one end | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | a drum | with one end | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drum=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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