Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 50
At last the muskrat went beneath the waters, and, after a long time appeared at the surface, nearly exhausted, with some dirt.
Who acts: last muskrat · What happens: go, appear, exhaust · To what, where: waters, surface
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 (last muskrat), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 muskrat | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 muskrat | det |
| 4 | muskrat | muskrat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 8 waters | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 waters | det |
| 8 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appeared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 appeared | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | obl |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 surface | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 surface | det |
| 19 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 exhausted | punct |
| 21 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 22 exhausted | advmod |
| 22 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 appeared | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dirt | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 dirt | case |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 dirt | det |
| 26 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 exhausted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the last muskrat | the waters | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beneath water=Location | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the surface | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at surface=Location | ||||
| 3 | exhaust | participle | with some dirt; nearly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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