Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 45
The Unktéhee sometimes reveals himself in the form of a huge buffalo-bull.
Who acts: Unktéhee · What happens: reveal, form · To what, where: man, form, huge buffalo bull
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 (Unktéhee), 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 Unktéhee | det |
| 2 | Unktéhee | Unktéhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reveals | nsubj |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 reveals | advmod |
| 4 | reveals | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 reveals | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 form | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 form | det |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reveals | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bull | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bull | det |
| 11 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bull | amod |
| 12 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bull | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 buffalo | punct |
| 14 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 form | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reveals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reveal | present | the Unktéhee | man | the form of a huge buffalo bull | sometimes property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 2 | form | a huge buffalo bull | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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