Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 155

This is the root-word for all ruminating animals; Ta-tânka, buffalo-Ta-tóka mountain antelope--Ta-hinca, the red-deer--Ta-mdóka, the buck deer-Ta-hinca-ska, white deer (sheep).]

Who acts: This · What happens: be, ruminate · To what, where: root word

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 (This), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 word	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
4	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 root	punct
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 animals	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 animals	det
9	ruminating	ruminate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 animals	amod
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 word	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 Ta	punct
12	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 word	appos
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 tânka	punct
14	tânka	tânka	X	Foreign=Yes	12 Ta	dep
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17	punct
16	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17	compound
17			NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Ta	conj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Ta	punct
19	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	17	appos
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Ta	punct
21	tóka	tóka	X	Foreign=Yes	23 antelope	dep
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 antelope	compound
23	antelope	antelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Ta	conj
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 Ta	punct
25	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ta	conj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 hinca	punct
27	hinca	hinca	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Ta	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 deer	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 deer	det
30	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 deer	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 red	punct
32	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Ta	conj
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 Ta	punct
34	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ta	conj
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 mdóka	punct
36	mdóka	mdóka	X	Foreign=Yes	34 Ta	dep
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41	det
39	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 deer	compound
40	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	41	compound
41			NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Ta	conj
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 Ta	punct
43	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	41	appos
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 hinca	punct
45	hinca	hinca	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Ta	conj
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 ska	punct
47	ska	ska	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 Ta	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 deer	punct
49	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 deer	amod
50	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Ta	conj
51	(	(	PUNCT	_	52 sheep	punct
52	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 deer	appos
53	)	)	PUNCT	_	52 sheep	punct
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Ta	punct
55	]	]	PUNCT	_	12 Ta	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	the root word				for all ruminating animals; Ta and buffalo and mountain antelope and Ta and hinca and the red deer and Ta and the deer and white deer appos	tree rules
2	ruminate	gerund							vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 3, sentence 155

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 155