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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 52

The earth being finished, he took a deity, one of his own offspring, and grinding him to powder, sprinkled it upon the earth, and this produced many worms.

Who acts: earth, this · What happens: finish, take, grind, sprinkle, produce · To what, where: earth, deity, muskrat, powder, many worms

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 (earth, this), 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

detnsubjaux:passaclpunctnsubjdetobjpunctapposcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctccadvclobjcaseoblpunctconjobjcasedetoblpunctccnsubjconjamodobjpunctrootTheDETearthNOUNbeingAUXfinishedVERB,PUNCThePRONtookVERBaDETdeityNOUN,PUNCToneNUMofADPhisPRONownADJoffspringNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJgrindingVERBhimPRONtoADPpowderNOUN,PUNCTsprinkledVERBitPRONuponADPtheDETearthNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthisPRONproducedVERBmanyADJwormsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 earthdet
2earthearthNOUNNumber=Sing7 tooknsubj
3beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 finishedaux:pass
4finishedfinishVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 earthacl
5,,PUNCT_2 earthpunct
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 tooknsubj
7tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 deitydet
9deitydeityNOUNNumber=Sing7 tookobj
10,,PUNCT_11 onepunct
11oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card9 deityappos
12ofofADP_15 offspringcase
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 offspringnmod:poss
14ownownADJDegree=Pos15 offspringamod
15offspringoffspringNOUNNumber=Sing11 onenmod
16,,PUNCT_23 sprinkledpunct
17andandCCONJ_23 sprinkledcc
18grindinggrindVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part23 sprinkledadvcl
19himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 grindingobj
20totoADP_21 powdercase
21powderpowderNOUNNumber=Sing18 grindingobl
22,,PUNCT_18 grindingpunct
23sprinkledsprinkleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 tookconj
24ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 sprinkledobj
25uponuponADP_27 earthcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 earthdet
27earthearthNOUNNumber=Sing23 sprinkledobl
28,,PUNCT_31 producedpunct
29andandCCONJ_31 producedcc
30thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem31 producednsubj
31producedproduceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 tookconj
32manymanyADJDegree=Pos33 wormsamod
33wormswormNOUNNumber=Plur31 producedobj
34..PUNCT_7 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1finishgerund · passivethe earth not said herevn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»
2takepastthe eartha deitymuskrat nsubjvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deity=Theme
3grindgerundmuskratpowdervn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to powder=Recipient
4sprinklepastthe earth not said heredeitythe earthvn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon earth=Destination
5producepastthismany wormsvn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Result

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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