Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 16
This sobriquet, of which he was proud, descended to his son, Wakínyan Tânka--Big Thunder, who succeeded him as chief; and from Big Thunder to his son Ta-ó-ya-te-dú-ta, who became chief on the death of Wakínyan Tânka.
Who acts: sobriquet, Wakínyan, dú ta · What happens: be, descend, succeed, become, die · To what, where: Big, Kâ, chief, death
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 (sobriquet, Wakínyan, dú ta), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 sobriquet | det |
| 2 | sobriquet | sobriquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proud | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 proud | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 proud | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 proud | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 proud | cop |
| 8 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 descended | punct |
| 10 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 proud | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 son | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 descended | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Wakínyan | punct |
| 15 | Wakínyan | Wakínyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 succeeded | nsubj |
| 16 | Tânka | Tânka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Wakínyan | flat |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 Big | punct |
| 18 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Wakínyan | conj |
| 19 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Big | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 succeeded | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 succeeded | nsubj |
| 22 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 proud | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 succeeded | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 chief | case |
| 25 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 succeeded | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 Big | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Big | cc |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 Big | case |
| 29 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 proud | obl |
| 30 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Big | flat |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 son | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 son | nmod:poss |
| 33 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Big | nmod |
| 34 | Ta | Ta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 son | appos |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Ta | punct |
| 36 | ó | ó | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ya | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 ó | punct |
| 38 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 son | appos |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 te | punct |
| 40 | te | te | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ya | appos |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 dú | punct |
| 42 | dú | dú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ta | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 dú | punct |
| 44 | ta | ta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 te | appos |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 became | punct |
| 46 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 became | nsubj |
| 47 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 ta | acl:relcl |
| 48 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 became | xcomp |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 death | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 death | det |
| 51 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 became | obl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 Wakínyan | case |
| 53 | Wakínyan | Wakínyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 death | nmod |
| 54 | Tânka | Tânka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Wakínyan | flat |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this sobriquet | Big to Kâ's son | which obl; Kâ nsubj; proud property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | descend | participle | this sobriquet not said here | to Kâ's son | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to son=Location | ||||
| 3 | succeed | past | Wakínyan and Big | Kâ | as chief; who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | become | past | dú ta | chief | the death of Wakínyan | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | die | Wakínyan | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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