Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 65
They are twin brothers but Anpétuwee is the more powerful Han-yé-tuwee receives his power from his brother and obeys him.
Who acts: Footnote, powerful Han yé tuwee · What happens: be, receive, obey · To what, where: twin brothers, powerful Han yé tuwee, power, tuwee
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 (Footnote, powerful Han yé tuwee), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brothers | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brothers | cop |
| 3 | twin | twin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brothers | amod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tuwee | parataxis |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 Anpétuwee | cc |
| 6 | Anpétuwee | Anpétuwee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brothers | conj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 tuwee | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tuwee | det |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 powerful | advmod |
| 10 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tuwee | amod |
| 11 | Han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tuwee | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Han | punct |
| 13 | yé | yé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tuwee | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tuwee | punct |
| 15 | tuwee | tuwee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 receives | nsubj |
| 16 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 power | nmod:poss |
| 18 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 receives | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 brother | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 receives | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 obeys | cc |
| 23 | obeys | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 receives | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 obeys | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 receives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Footnote | twin brothers but Anpétuwee | Anpétuwee conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the powerful Han yé tuwee | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | receive | present | the powerful Han yé tuwee | tuwee's power | from tuwee's brother | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent power=Theme from brother=Source | |||
| 4 | obey | present | the powerful Han yé tuwee not said here | tuwee | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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