Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 11
In the wigwam the tekenagun is often suspended by a cord to the lodge-poles and the mother swings her babe in it.]
Who acts: cord · What happens: suspend, swing · To what, where: tekenagun, wigwam, babe
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cord), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 wigwam | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wigwam | det |
| 3 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suspended | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tekenagun | det |
| 5 | tekenagun | tekenagun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suspended | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 suspended | aux:pass |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 suspended | advmod |
| 8 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 swings | advcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 cord | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cord | det |
| 11 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suspended | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 poles | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 poles | det |
| 14 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 poles | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 lodge | punct |
| 16 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 suspended | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mother | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mother | det |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 poles | conj |
| 20 | swings | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 babe | nmod:poss |
| 22 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swings | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 swings | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 swings | punct |
| 26 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 20 swings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspend | present · passive | a cord | the tekenagun | the wigwam | to the lodge poles and the mother; often property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in wigwam=Destination | ||
| 2 | swing | present | mother's babe | babe | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent babe=Theme in it=Location |
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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