Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 77
_" "Sacred Spirit,--Father, have mercy on me."
Who acts: _ · What happens: have · To what, where: mercy
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 (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 have | nsubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Spirit | punct |
| 4 | Sacred | Sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Spirit | amod |
| 5 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Father | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Father | punct |
| 8 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Spirit | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | _ and Sacred Spirit | mercy | on me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Patient |
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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