Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 76
Ate, on-she-ma-da.
What happens: eat · To what, where: ma da
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: 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 | Ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 da | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 da | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 on | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 da | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 she | punct |
| 7 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 da | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ma | punct |
| 9 | da | da | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ate | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | ma da moon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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