Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 153
The Chippewas say that its waters were colored red by the blood of many warriors slain on its banks in the fierce wars between themselves and the Dakotas.]
Who acts: Chippewas, many warriors · What happens: say, color, slain · To what, where: waters, blood, 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: who acts (Chippewas, many warriors), 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 | 2 Chippewas | det |
| 2 | Chippewas | chippewa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 colored | mark |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 waters | nmod:poss |
| 6 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 colored | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 colored | aux:pass |
| 8 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 say | ccomp |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 colored | xcomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 blood | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 blood | det |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 colored | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 warriors | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 warriors | amod |
| 15 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 slain | nsubj |
| 16 | slain | slain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 blood | acl:relcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 banks | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 banks | nmod:poss |
| 19 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 slain | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 wars | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wars | det |
| 22 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wars | amod |
| 23 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 banks | nmod |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 25 themselves | case |
| 25 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 wars | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Dakotas | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Dakotas | det |
| 28 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 themselves | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 30 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Chippewas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | color | past · passive | battle's waters | by the blood; red property | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | slain | present | many warriors | the blood not said here | battle's banks in the fierce wars between warriors | tree rules |
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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