Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 88
April--Magâ-okâ-da-wee--the moon when the geese lay eggs; also called Wokâda-wee--egg-moon, and sometimes Wató-papee-wee, the canoe moon, or moon when the streams become free from ice.
Who acts: geese, da wee, streams · What happens: lay, call, become · To what, where: eggs, egg moon, da wee · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (geese, da wee, streams), 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 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wee | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 April | punct |
| 3 | Magâ | Magâ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 April | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 okâ | punct |
| 5 | okâ | okâ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 April | appos |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 okâ | punct |
| 7 | da | da | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wee | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 wee | punct |
| 9 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 moon | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moon | det |
| 12 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wee | appos |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 lay | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 geese | det |
| 15 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 moon | acl:relcl |
| 17 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lay | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 called | advmod |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wee | acl |
| 21 | Wokâda | Wokâda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Wokâda | punct |
| 23 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 egg | compound |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 wee | punct |
| 25 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 moon | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 egg | punct |
| 27 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wee | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 wee | cc |
| 30 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 wee | advmod |
| 31 | Wató | Wató | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 wee | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Wató | punct |
| 33 | papee | papee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wee | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 papee | punct |
| 35 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wee | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 moon | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 moon | det |
| 38 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 moon | compound |
| 39 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wee | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 moon | punct |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 moon | cc |
| 42 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wee | conj |
| 43 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 46 become | mark |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 streams | det |
| 45 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 become | nsubj |
| 46 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wee | advcl |
| 47 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 become | xcomp |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 ice | case |
| 49 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 free | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the geese | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | da wee April and Wató papee wee and the canoe moon or moon not said here | egg moon | Wokâda xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | become | present | the streams | free property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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