Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 59
There are various accounts of the creation of man.
Who acts: various accounts · What happens: be, account, create · To what, where: creation, man
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 (various accounts), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 accounts | amod |
| 4 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 creation | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 creation | det |
| 7 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accounts | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 creation | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | various accounts of the creation of man | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | account | the creation of man | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | create | man | nom creation «act 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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