Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 7
[Footnote 51: Tâhkoo-skahng-skang.--This deity is supposed to be invisible, yet everywhere present; he is an avenger and a searcher of hearts.
Who acts: Eastman · What happens: suppose, be · To what, where: deity, avenger, Footnote
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 (Eastman), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 51 | 51 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 skang | punct |
| 5 | Tâhkoo | Tâhkoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 skang | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tâhkoo | punct |
| 7 | skahng | skahng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skang | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 skahng | punct |
| 9 | skang | skang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 skang | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 supposed | punct |
| 12 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 deity | det |
| 13 | deity | deity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 supposed | aux:pass |
| 15 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 skang | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 invisible | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 invisible | cop |
| 18 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 supposed | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 present | punct |
| 20 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 22 present | cc |
| 21 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 present | advmod |
| 22 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 invisible | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 avenger | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 avenger | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 avenger | cop |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 avenger | det |
| 27 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 searcher | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 searcher | det |
| 30 | searcher | searcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 avenger | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 hearts | case |
| 32 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 searcher | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · passive | this deity | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | invisible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | everywhere property | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | Eastman | a avenger and a searcher of hearts | a searcher of hearts conj | tree rules |
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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