Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 50
Here dwelt the Great Unktéhee, the creator of the earth and man; and from this place a path led to the Spirit-land.
What happens: dwell, lead · To what, where: Great Unktéhee, path
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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 dwelt | advmod |
| 2 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Unktéhee | det |
| 4 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Unktéhee | amod |
| 5 | Unktéhee | Unktéhee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dwelt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 creator | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 creator | det |
| 8 | creator | creator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Unktéhee | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creator | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 man | cc |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 earth | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 place | cc |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dwelt | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 path | det |
| 20 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 place | conj |
| 21 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 path | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 land | det |
| 24 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 land | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Spirit | punct |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | the Great Unktéhee | here | this place and a path parataxis | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme unktéhee=Location | |||
| 2 | lead | participle | a path not said here | to the Spirit land | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to land=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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