Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 27
The island called by the Ojibways the _Mak-i-nak_ (the turtle) from its tortoise-like shape, lifts its huge form in the distance.
Who acts: island · What happens: call, lift, form · To what, where: island, huge form · 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 (island), 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 | 2 island | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lifts | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 island | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Ojibways | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ojibways | det |
| 6 | Ojibways | Ojibway | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 called | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nak | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 nak | punct |
| 9 | Mak | mak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nak | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mak | punct |
| 11 | i | i | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nak | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 nak | punct |
| 13 | nak | nak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Ojibways | obj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 nak | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 turtle | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 turtle | det |
| 17 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nak | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 turtle | punct |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 shape | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 shape | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 like | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 tortoise | punct |
| 23 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shape | amod |
| 24 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nak | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 island | punct |
| 26 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 form | nmod:poss |
| 28 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 form | amod |
| 29 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lifts | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 distance | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 distance | det |
| 32 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lifts | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 lifts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the island not said here | the Ojibways the Mak i nak xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lift | present | the island | island's huge form | in the distance | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent form=Theme in distance=Destination | |||
| 3 | form | island | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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