Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 34
[Footnote 64: The Medó is a wild potato, it resembles the sweet potato in top and taste.
Who acts: Medó · What happens: be, resemble · To what, where: wild potato, sweet potato, top, Footnote
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 (Medó), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 64 | 64 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 potato | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Medó | det |
| 6 | Medó | Medó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 potato | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 potato | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 potato | det |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 potato | amod |
| 10 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 resembles | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 resembles | nsubj |
| 13 | resembles | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 potato | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 potato | det |
| 15 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 potato | amod |
| 16 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 resembles | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 top | case |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 resembles | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 taste | cc |
| 20 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 top | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Medó | a wild potato | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | resemble | present | Medó | the sweet potato | top and taste | 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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