Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 152
[Footnote 40: The Bloody River--the Red River was so-called on account of the numerous Indian battles that have been fought on its banks.
What happens: call, fight, account · To what, where: Footnote, account, numerous Indian battles, banks · 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: 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 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 River | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 River | det |
| 6 | Bloody | Bloody | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 River | compound |
| 7 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 River | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 River | det |
| 10 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 River | flat |
| 11 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 River | conj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 called | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 so | punct |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 account | case |
| 17 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 battles | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 battles | det |
| 20 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 battles | amod |
| 21 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 battles | amod |
| 22 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 account | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 fought | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fought | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 fought | aux:pass |
| 26 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 battles | acl:relcl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 banks | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 banks | nmod:poss |
| 29 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fought | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | Footnote | account of the numerous Indian battles | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fight | present · perfect · passive | the numerous Indian battles | battle's banks | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | account | the numerous Indian battles | nom account «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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