Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 28
Some "down-east" Yankee, called it "Pie-Island," from its (to his hungry imagination) fancied resemblance to a pumpkin pie, and the name, like all bad names, _sticks_.
Who acts: down east, _, form · What happens: call, fancy, stick, imagine · To what, where: form, resemblance, hungry imagination, bad names · 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 (down east, _, form), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 east | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 east | punct |
| 3 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 east | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 down | punct |
| 5 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yankee | punct |
| 7 | Yankee | Yankee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 east | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 east | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Island | punct |
| 12 | Pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Island | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Pie | punct |
| 14 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fancied | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 fancied | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 imagination | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 imagination | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 imagination | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 imagination | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 imagination | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 imagination | amod |
| 23 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fancied | obl |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 imagination | punct |
| 25 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | conj |
| 26 | resemblance | resemblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fancied | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 pie | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 pie | det |
| 29 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pie | compound |
| 30 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fancied | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 name | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 name | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 name | det |
| 34 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pie | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 names | punct |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 names | case |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 names | det |
| 38 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 names | amod |
| 39 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fancied | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 sticks | punct |
| 41 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sticks | nsubj |
| 42 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 names | acl |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 sticks | punct |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | some down east | form | Pie Island obl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 2 | fancy | past | some down east not said here | resemblance | form's hungry imagination | to a pumpkin pie and the name; like all bad names | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer resemblance=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | stick | present | _ | all bad names not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 4 | imagine | form | nom imagination «cognition 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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