Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 158
[Footnote 43: Tipsânna (often called _tipsinna_) is a wild prairie turnip used for food by the Dakotas.
Who acts: Footnote · What happens: call, be, use · To what, where: Tipsânna, wild prairie turnip · 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 (Footnote), 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 | 17 turnip | nsubj |
| 3 | 43 | 43 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tipsânna | punct |
| 5 | Tipsânna | Tipsânna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 called | advmod |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Tipsânna | acl |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 tipsinna | punct |
| 10 | tipsinna | tipsinna | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 called | xcomp |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 tipsinna | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 turnip | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 turnip | det |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 turnip | amod |
| 16 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turnip | compound |
| 17 | turnip | turnip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 turnip | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 food | case |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 used | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 Dakotas | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Dakotas | det |
| 23 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 used | obl:agent |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 turnip | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Tipsânna not said here | often property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Footnote | a wild prairie turnip | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | a wild prairie turnip not said here | for food; the Dakotas obl:agent | vn eat-39.1 «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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