Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 84
They correspond very nearly with our months, as follows:
Who acts: Dakotas · What happens: correspond, follow
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 (Dakotas), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 correspond | nsubj |
| 2 | correspond | correspond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 nearly | advmod |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 2 correspond | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 months | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 months | nmod:poss |
| 7 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 correspond | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 follows | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 follows | mark |
| 10 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 correspond | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 correspond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | correspond | present | Dakotas = dakota | month | nearly property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | follow | present | Dakotas = dakota not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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