Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 17
These several "Little Crows" were successively Chiefs of the Light-foot, or Kapóza band of Dakotas.
What happens: be · To what, where: Chiefs, several Little Crows
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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 Crows | nsubj |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Crows | amod |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Crows | punct |
| 4 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Crows | amod |
| 5 | Crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Crows | punct |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Chiefs | cop |
| 8 | successively | successively | ADV | _ | 9 Chiefs | advmod |
| 9 | Chiefs | Chief | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 Crows | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 foot | det |
| 12 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 foot | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Light | punct |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Chiefs | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 band | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 band | cc |
| 17 | Kapóza | Kapóza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 band | compound |
| 18 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Chiefs | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Dakotas | case |
| 20 | Dakotas | Dakotas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 band | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Crows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Chiefs or Kapóza band of Dakotas | of the Light foot; Kapóza band of Dakotas conj; successively property | 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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