Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 15
[Footnote 82: The sacred _O-zu-ha_--or Medicine-sack must be made of the skin of the otter, the coon, the weasel, the squirrel, the loon, a certain kind of fish or the skins of serpents.
What happens: make · To what, where: Medicine sack, Footnote
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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 82 | 82 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 sacred | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sacred | det |
| 6 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 sacred | punct |
| 8 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 10 zu | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 O | punct |
| 10 | zu | zu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 _ | obl |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ha | punct |
| 12 | ha | ha | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 10 zu | appos |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 ha | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 16 | Medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sack | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Medicine | punct |
| 18 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ha | acl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 skin | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 skin | det |
| 24 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 otter | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 otter | det |
| 27 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skin | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 coon | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 coon | det |
| 30 | coon | coon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skin | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 weasel | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 weasel | det |
| 33 | weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 coon | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 squirrel | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 squirrel | det |
| 36 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 weasel | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 loon | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 loon | det |
| 39 | loon | loon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 weasel | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 kind | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 kind | det |
| 42 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 kind | amod |
| 43 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 weasel | appos |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 fish | case |
| 45 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 kind | nmod |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 skins | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 skins | det |
| 48 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 kind | conj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 serpents | case |
| 50 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 skins | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | must · passive | Medicine sack | of the skin of the otter and the coon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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