Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 17
From this combination proceeds a Wakân influence so powerful that no human being unassisted can resist it."
Who acts: Wakân influence · What happens: proceed, unassist, resist · To what, where: combination, no, sack
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 (Wakân influence), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 combination | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 combination | det |
| 3 | combination | combination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proceeds | obl |
| 4 | proceeds | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 influence | det |
| 6 | Wakân | Wakân | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 influence | compound |
| 7 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 resist | nsubj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 powerful | advmod |
| 9 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 influence | amod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 unassisted | mark |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 unassisted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 unassisted | compound |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 unassisted | aux:pass |
| 14 | unassisted | unassist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 powerful | advcl |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 resist | aux |
| 16 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 proceeds | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 resist | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proceeds | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 proceeds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | present | this combination | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | unassist | gerund · passive | no | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | resist | can | a Wakân influence | sack | tree rules |
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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