Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 68
Unlike the most of their other gods, he is beneficent and kind; yet they worship him (in the sun-dance) in the most dreadful manner.
Who acts: Sun, lives · What happens: be, worship · To what, where: Sun, sun dance
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 (Sun, lives), 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 | Unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 3 most | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 most | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 beneficent | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gods | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gods | nmod:poss |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gods | amod |
| 7 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 most | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beneficent | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beneficent | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 beneficent | cop |
| 11 | beneficent | beneficent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kind | cc |
| 13 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beneficent | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 worship | punct |
| 15 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 17 worship | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 worship | nsubj |
| 17 | worship | worship | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 beneficent | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 worship | obj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 dance | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 dance | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dance | det |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dance | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 sun | punct |
| 24 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worship | obl |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 dance | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 manner | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 manner | det |
| 28 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 29 dreadful | advmod |
| 29 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 manner | amod |
| 30 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worship | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 beneficent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sun | unlike the most of lives's other gods; beneficent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Sun not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | worship | present | lives = life | Sun | the sun dance | in the dreadful manner | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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