Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 1

Note: An-pe-tu Sa-pa--Clouded Day--was the name of the Dakota mother who committed suicide, as related in this legend, by plunging over the Falls of St. Anthony.

Who acts: pe, tu Sa pa, Note, Dakota mother · What happens: pa, cloud, be, suicide, plunge · To what, where: Day, name, Falls

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pe, tu Sa pa, Note, Dakota mother), 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	Note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 name	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 pa	punct
3	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pe	det
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 An	punct
5	pe	pe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pa	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 pa	punct
7	tu	tu	X	Foreign=Yes	10 pa	compound
8	Sa	Sa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pa	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Sa	punct
10	pa	pa	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Note	appos
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 Clouded	punct
12	Clouded	cloud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 pa	acl
13	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Clouded	obl:unmarked
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	1 Note	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 name	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 name	det
17	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 mother	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mother	det
20	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 mother	compound
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 name	nmod
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 suicide	nsubj
23	committed	committed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 suicide	amod
24	suicide	suicide	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mother	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 related	punct
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 related	case
27	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 name	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 legend	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 legend	det
30	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 related	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 plunging	punct
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	33 plunging	mark
33	plunging	plunge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 related	conj
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 Falls	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Falls	det
36	Falls	Falls	PROPN	Number=Plur	33 plunging	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Anthony	case
38	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Anthony	nmod:desc
39	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Falls	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 name	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pa		a pe				tree rules
2	cloud	participle	tu Sa pa not said here	Day			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past	Note	the name		of the Dakota mother	tree rules
4	suicide		the Dakota mother				tree rules
5	plunge	gerund	Note not said here		the Falls of Anthony St.		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over falls=Initial_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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 1

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Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 1