Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 71
The moon is worshipped as the representative of the sun; and in the great Sun-dance, which is usually held in the full of the moon, when the moon rises the dancers turn their eyes on her (or him).
Who acts: moon, great Sun dance, dancers · What happens: be, hold, rise, turn · To what, where: great Sun dance, full, eyes
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 (moon, great Sun dance, dancers), 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 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worshipped | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worshipped | cop |
| 4 | worshipped | worshipped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 representative | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 representative | det |
| 7 | representative | representative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worshipped | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 representative | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 dance | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dance | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dance | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dance | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dance | amod |
| 16 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 dance | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sun | punct |
| 18 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rises | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 held | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 held | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 held | aux:pass |
| 22 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 23 held | advmod |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 dance | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 full | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 full | det |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 held | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 moon | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 moon | det |
| 29 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 full | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 rises | punct |
| 31 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 34 rises | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 moon | det |
| 33 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rises | nsubj |
| 34 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worshipped | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 dancers | det |
| 36 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 turn | nsubj |
| 37 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 rises | parataxis |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 turn | obj |
| 40 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 44 him | mark |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 him | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 him | punct |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 him | cc |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 turn | xcomp |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 rises | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worshipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the moon | as the representative of the sun; worshipped property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | present · passive | the great Sun dance | the full of the moon | usually property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in full=Location | |||
| 3 | rise | present | the great Sun dance | the moon nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | turn | present | the dancers | dancers's eyes | dance xcomp | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=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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