Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 12
The true Dakota word is Mdó tè--applied to the mouth of a river flowing into another,--also to the outlet of a lake.]
Who acts: true Dakota word, river · What happens: be, apply, flow · To what, where: Mdó tè, another
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 (true Dakota word, river), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 2 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 word | amod |
| 3 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 word | compound |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tè | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tè | cop |
| 6 | Mdó | Mdó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tè | compound |
| 7 | tè | tè | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 applied | punct |
| 9 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tè | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mouth | det |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 applied | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mouth | nmod |
| 16 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 river | acl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 another | case |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 flowing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 outlet | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 outlet | punct |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 outlet | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 outlet | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 outlet | det |
| 24 | outlet | outlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tè | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 lake | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 lake | det |
| 27 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 outlet | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tè | punct |
| 29 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 tè | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the true Dakota word | Mdó tè and the outlet of a lake | the outlet of a lake conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | apply | participle | Mdó tè and the outlet of a lake not said here | to the mouth of a river | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | flow | gerund | a river not said here | another | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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