Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 48
Assembling in grand conclave all the aquatic tribes he ordered them to bring up dirt from beneath the waters, and proclaimed death to the disobedient.
Who acts: man · What happens: assemble, order, bring up, proclaim · To what, where: aquatic tribes, grand conclave, tribes, dirt, waters, death
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 (man), 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 | Assembling | assemble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ordered | csubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 conclave | case |
| 3 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 conclave | amod |
| 4 | conclave | conclave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Assembling | obl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 tribes | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tribes | det |
| 7 | aquatic | aquatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tribes | amod |
| 8 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Assembling | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ordered | nsubj |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ordered | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 bring | mark |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ordered | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 bring | compound:prt |
| 15 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 waters | case |
| 17 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 19 waters | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waters | det |
| 19 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bring | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 proclaimed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 proclaimed | cc |
| 22 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ordered | conj |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 proclaimed | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 disobedient | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 disobedient | det |
| 26 | disobedient | disobedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 proclaimed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | gerund | all aquatic tribes | grand conclave | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tribe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | man | tribes = tribe | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring up not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | dirt | the waters | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dirt=Patient | |||
| 4 | proclaim | past | man not said here | death | to the disobedient | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent death=Theme to disobedient=Attribute |
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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