Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 24
Various tricks are devised to conceal the nature of the "medicine" and to induce the warrior to drink it; but when it is mixed with a liberal quantity of "fire-water" it is considered irresistable.]
Who acts: liberal quantity · What happens: devise, conceal, induce, drink, mix, consider · To what, where: Various tricks, nature, warrior
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 (liberal quantity), 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 | Various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tricks | amod |
| 2 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 devised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 devised | aux:pass |
| 4 | devised | devise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 conceal | mark |
| 6 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 devised | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nature | det |
| 8 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conceal | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 medicine | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 medicine | det |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 medicine | punct |
| 12 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nature | nmod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 medicine | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 induce | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 induce | mark |
| 16 | induce | induce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 conceal | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 warrior | det |
| 18 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 induce | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 drink | mark |
| 20 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 induce | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 drink | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 mixed | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 mixed | cc |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 mixed | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 mixed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 mixed | aux:pass |
| 27 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 devised | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 quantity | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 quantity | det |
| 30 | liberal | liberal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 quantity | amod |
| 31 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mixed | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 water | case |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 water | punct |
| 34 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 water | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 fire | punct |
| 36 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 quantity | nmod |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 water | punct |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 considered | aux:pass |
| 40 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 quantity | acl:relcl |
| 41 | irresistable | irresistable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 considered | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 devised | punct |
| 43 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 4 devised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devise | present · passive | Various tricks | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | conceal | to-infinitive | the nature of the medicine | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Patient | |||||
| 3 | induce | to-infinitive | the warrior | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Patient | |||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | warrior | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 5 | mix | present · passive | warrior | with a liberal quantity of fire water | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with quantity=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | consider | present · passive | a liberal quantity of fire water not said here | warrior | irresistable property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
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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