Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 94
October--Wà-zu-pee-wee or Wee-wa-zú-pee--the moon when wild rice is gathered and laid up for winter.
What happens: gather, lay up · To what, where: wild rice
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 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wee | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 October | punct |
| 3 | Wà | Wà | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 October | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 zu | punct |
| 5 | zu | zu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 October | appos |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 zu | punct |
| 7 | pee | pee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wee | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 pee | punct |
| 9 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 Wee | cc |
| 11 | Wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wee | conj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wee | punct |
| 13 | wa | wa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 zú | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 wa | punct |
| 15 | zú | zú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pee | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 zú | punct |
| 17 | pee | pee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wee | conj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 moon | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 moon | det |
| 20 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wee | conj |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 gathered | mark |
| 22 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rice | amod |
| 23 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 gathered | aux:pass |
| 25 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 moon | acl:relcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 laid | cc |
| 27 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 gathered | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 laid | compound:prt |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 winter | case |
| 30 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 laid | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | present · passive | wild rice | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lay up | participle | winter | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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