Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 12
For a very full and accurate account of the Medicine men of the Dakotas, and their rites etc., see Chap.
Who acts: rites, etc. · What happens: etc., see, account · To what, where: Chap, Medicine men
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: who acts (rites, etc.), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 7 account | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 account | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 full | advmod |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 account | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 accurate | cc |
| 6 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 full | conj |
| 7 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 10 | Medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 men | compound |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 account | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Dakotas | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Dakotas | det |
| 14 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 men | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 etc. | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 etc. | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 rites | nmod:poss |
| 18 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 etc. | nsubj |
| 19 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 21 see | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | Chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | etc. | Dakotas's rites | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | etc. | Chap | for a full account of the Medicine men of the Dakotas | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chap=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | account | the Medicine men of the Dakotas | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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