Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 107

[b] Pronounced _Yoon-hay-hay_--the exclamation used by Dakota women in their lament for the dead, and equivalent to "woe is me."

Who acts: exclamation, hills · What happens: pronounce, use, be, lament · To what, where: Yoon hay hay, exclamation, lament, Dakotas

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (exclamation, hills), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 b	punct
2	b	b	NUM	_	4 Pronounced	discourse
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 b	punct
4	Pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 hay	punct
6	Yoon	Yoon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hay	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Yoon	punct
8	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hay	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 hay	punct
10	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Pronounced	obl
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 hay	punct
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 exclamation	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 exclamation	det
14	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 me	nsubj
15	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 exclamation	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 women	case
17	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 women	compound
18	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 used	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 lament	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lament	nmod:poss
21	lament	lament	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 used	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 dead	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dead	det
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 used	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 equivalent	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 equivalent	cc
27	equivalent	equivalent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 exclamation	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 woe	case
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 woe	punct
30	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 equivalent	obl
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 me	cop
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 hay	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Pronounced	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Pronounced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pronounce	participle		Yoon hay hay		b discourse	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	use	participle		the exclamation not said here	hills's lament	by Dakota women; for the dead	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	the exclamation	the Dakotas = dakota			tree rules
4	lament		hills = hill				nom lament «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 107

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 107