Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 6
The devotee, stripped to the skin, sits within this steam-tight dome, sweating profusely at every pore, until he is nearly suffocated.
Who acts: devotee · What happens: strip, sit, sweat, suffocate · To what, where: devotee, pore
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 (devotee), 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 devotee | det |
| 2 | devotee | devotee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sits | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stripped | punct |
| 4 | stripped | strip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 devotee | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 skin | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skin | det |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stripped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 devotee | punct |
| 9 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 steam | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 steam | det |
| 12 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sits | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 dome | punct |
| 14 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dome | amod |
| 15 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 steam | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sweating | punct |
| 17 | sweating | sweat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sits | advcl |
| 18 | profusely | profusely | ADV | _ | 17 sweating | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 pore | case |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 pore | det |
| 21 | pore | pore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sweating | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 suffocated | punct |
| 23 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 suffocated | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 suffocated | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 suffocated | aux:pass |
| 26 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 27 suffocated | advmod |
| 27 | suffocated | suffocate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 sweating | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strip | participle | the devotee not said here | to the skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | the devotee | within this steam and tight dome | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sweat | gerund | the devotee not said here | every pore | profusely property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | suffocate | present · passive | devotee | nearly property | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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