Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 87
March--Istâ-wee-ca-ya-zang-wee--the sore eyes moon (from snow blindness.)
To what, where: zang wee
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 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wee | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 March | punct |
| 3 | Istâ | Istâ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 March | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Istâ | punct |
| 5 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 March | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wee | punct |
| 7 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 wee | aux |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ca | punct |
| 9 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wee | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ya | punct |
| 11 | zang | zang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wee | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 wee | punct |
| 13 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 moon | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eyes | det |
| 16 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 moon | compound |
| 18 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wee | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 blindness | punct |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 blindness | case |
| 21 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blindness | compound |
| 22 | blindness | blindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moon | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 blindness | punct |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 blindness | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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