Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 2
The vapor bath is taken in this way: "A number of poles the size of hoop-poles or less are taken, and their larger ends being set in the ground in a circle, the flexible tops are bent over and tied in the centre.
Who acts: poles · What happens: take, set, bend over, tie · To what, where: vapor bath, way, size, larger ends, ground, flexible tops · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (poles), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bath | det |
| 2 | vapor | vapor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bath | compound |
| 3 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux:pass |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 number | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 number | punct |
| 11 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 number | det |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 poles | case |
| 14 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 number | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 size | det |
| 16 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 poles | case |
| 18 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poles | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 hoop | punct |
| 20 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 size | nmod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 less | cc |
| 22 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 poles | conj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux:pass |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 poles | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 set | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 set | cc |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 ends | nmod:poss |
| 28 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 ends | amod |
| 29 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 set | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 set | aux:pass |
| 31 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 taken | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 ground | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ground | det |
| 34 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 set | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 circle | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 circle | det |
| 37 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 set | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 bent | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 tops | det |
| 40 | flexible | flexible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 tops | amod |
| 41 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 bent | aux:pass |
| 43 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 taken | parataxis |
| 44 | over | over | ADV | _ | 43 bent | advmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 tied | cc |
| 46 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 bent | conj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 centre | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 centre | det |
| 49 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 tied | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · passive | the vapor bath | this way and a number of poles | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present · passive | poles not said here | the size of hoop poles | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set in a quote | gerund · passive | poles's larger ends | the ground | in a circle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in ground=Destination | |||
| 4 | bend over in a quote | present · passive | the flexible tops | over property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | ||||
| 5 | tie in a quote | participle | the centre | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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