Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 4
Before the door a fire is built, and round stones about the size of a man's head are heated in it.
What happens: build, heat · To what, where: fire, round stones
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: 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 built | aux:pass |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heated | cc |
| 10 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stones | amod |
| 11 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 heated | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 size | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 size | det |
| 14 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stones | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 man | case |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 size | nmod |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 heated | aux:pass |
| 21 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 built | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heated | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | a fire | before the door | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | heat | present · passive | round stones about the size of a man's head | in size | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in it=Instrument |
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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