Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 95
November--Ta-kee-yu-hrâ-wee--the deer-rutting moon.
What happens: rut · To what, where: hrâ 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 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wee | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 November | punct |
| 3 | Ta | Ta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 November | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 kee | punct |
| 5 | kee | kee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wee | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 yu | punct |
| 7 | yu | yu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kee | appos |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 yu | punct |
| 9 | hrâ | hrâ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wee | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hrâ | punct |
| 11 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 moon | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moon | det |
| 14 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rutting | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 deer | punct |
| 16 | rutting | rut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 moon | amod |
| 17 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wee | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rut | gerund | deer compound | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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