Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 26
A vast giant, turned to stone by his magic, lies asleep at his feet.
Who acts: vast giant · What happens: turn, lie · To what, where: vast giant, stone, feet
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 (vast giant), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 2 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 giant | amod |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lies | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 giant | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 magic | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 magic | nmod:poss |
| 10 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 giant | punct |
| 12 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lies | xcomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lies | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | participle | a vast giant not said here | stone | by giant's magic | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to stone=Source by magic=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | lie | present | a vast giant | giant's feet | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
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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