Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 53
The worms were then collected and scattered again.
What happens: collect, scatter · To what, where: 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: 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 worms | det |
| 2 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 collected | aux:pass |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 collected | advmod |
| 5 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 scattered | cc |
| 7 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 collected | conj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 scattered | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past · passive | the worms | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scatter | participle | again | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
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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