Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 116

Near the source of the Minnesota River is a place called "Thunder-Tracks" where the foot-prints of a "Thunder-bird" are seen on the rocks twenty-five miles apart.

Who acts: place · What happens: be, call, see, print · To what, where: place, source, Thunder Tracks, foot prints, rocks, Thunder bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place), 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	Near	near	ADP	_	3 source	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 source	det
3	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 River	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 River	det
6	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 River	compound
7	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 source	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 place	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 place	acl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Tracks	punct
13	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Tracks	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Thunder	punct
15	Tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 called	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Tracks	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 seen	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 prints	det
19	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prints	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 foot	punct
21	prints	print	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 seen	nsubj:pass
22	of	of	ADP	_	27 bird	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bird	det
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 bird	punct
25	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bird	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 bird	punct
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prints	nmod
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 bird	punct
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 seen	aux:pass
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Tracks	acl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 rocks	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rocks	det
33	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 seen	obl
34	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 five	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 twenty	punct
36	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 miles	nummod
37	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rocks	conj
38	apart	apart	ADV	_	37 miles	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present		a place	the source of the Minnesota River	tree rules
2	call	participle	a place not said here	Thunder Tracks		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	present · passive		the foot prints of a Thunder bird	the rocks and five miles	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	print			a Thunder bird		nom print «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 3, sentence 116

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 116