Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 9
Father Hennepin was subjected to the vapour-bath at Mille Lacs by Chief Aqui-pa-que-tin, two hundred years ago.
What happens: subject · To what, where: Father
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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 subjected | nsubj |
| 2 | Hennepin | Hennepin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 subjected | aux:pass |
| 4 | subjected | subject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 bath | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bath | det |
| 7 | vapour | vapour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bath | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 vapour | punct |
| 9 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 subjected | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Lacs | case |
| 11 | Mille | Mille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lacs | compound |
| 12 | Lacs | Lac | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 bath | nmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Chief | case |
| 14 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 tin | compound |
| 15 | Aqui | Aqui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Chief | flat |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 pa | punct |
| 17 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Chief | appos |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 pa | punct |
| 19 | que | que | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tin | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 que | punct |
| 21 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ago | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ago | punct |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hundred | compound |
| 24 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 subjected | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 subjected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | subject | past · passive | Father | to the vapour bath at Mille Lacs; ago property | tree rules |
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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