Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 1
E-né-pee--vapor bath is used as a purification preparatory to the sacred feasts.
What happens: use · To what, where: E-né-pee vapor bath
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5. 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 | E-né-pee | e-né-pee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bath | compound |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 E-né-pee | punct |
| 3 | vapor | vapor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bath | compound |
| 4 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | aux:pass |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 preparatory | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 preparatory | det |
| 9 | purification | purification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 preparatory | compound |
| 10 | preparatory | preparatory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 feasts | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 feasts | det |
| 13 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feasts | amod |
| 14 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 preparatory | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | E-né-pee vapor bath | as a purification preparatory to the sacred feasts | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as preparatory=Attribute |
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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