Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 170
The flute called _Cho-tanka_ (big pith) is of two varieties--one made of sumac, the pith of which is punched out, etc. The second variety is made of the long bone of the wing or thigh of the swan or crane.
Who acts: flute, one, sumac · What happens: call, be, make, punch out · To what, where: flute, two varieties, second variety · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (flute, one, sumac), 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 flute | det |
| 2 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 varieties | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 flute | acl |
| 4 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 5 | Cho | Cho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 _ | flat |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 tanka | punct |
| 7 | tanka | tanka | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 _ | dep |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 flute | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 pith | punct |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pith | amod |
| 11 | pith | pith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flute | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 pith | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 varieties | cop |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 varieties | case |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 varieties | nummod |
| 16 | varieties | variety | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 varieties | acl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sumac | case |
| 21 | sumac | sumac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pith | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pith | det |
| 24 | pith | pith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sumac | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 punched | obl |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 punched | aux:pass |
| 28 | punched | punch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 pith | acl:relcl |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 punched | compound:prt |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 etc. | punct |
| 31 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 24 pith | conj |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 variety | det |
| 33 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 variety | amod |
| 34 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 made | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 made | aux:pass |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sumac | acl:relcl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 bone | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bone | det |
| 39 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 bone | amod |
| 40 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 made | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 wing | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 wing | det |
| 43 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bone | nmod |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 thigh | cc |
| 45 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bone | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 swan | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 swan | det |
| 48 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 thigh | nmod |
| 49 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 50 crane | cc |
| 50 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 swan | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 varieties | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the flute not said here | _ xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the flute | of two varieties | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | one | two varieties not said here | of sumac | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset variety=Product | |||
| 4 | punch out | present · passive | of the pith and etc. | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» | |||||
| 5 | make | present · passive | sumac not said here | the second variety | of the long bone of the wing or thigh of the swan or crane | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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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