Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 23

The grandfather, whom I, for short, call Wakâwa, died the death of a brave in battle against the Ojibways (commonly called Chippewas)--the hereditary enemies of the Dakotas.

Who acts: grandfather, Wakâwa, Ojibways · What happens: call, die · To what, where: death, Chippewas · 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 (grandfather, Wakâwa, Ojibways), 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 grandfather	det
2	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 call	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 whom	punct
4	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 grandfather	nmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 whom	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 call	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 short	case
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 call	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 short	punct
10	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 died	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Wakâwa	punct
13	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 call	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 death	det
15	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 died	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 brave	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 brave	det
18	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 death	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 battle	case
20	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brave	obl
21	against	against	ADP	_	23 Ojibways	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Ojibways	det
23	Ojibways	ojibway	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 battle	nmod
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
25	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	26 called	advmod
26	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 Ojibways	acl
27	Chippewas	chippewa	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 called	xcomp
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 enemies	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 enemies	det
31	hereditary	hereditary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 enemies	amod
32	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 Ojibways	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Dakotas	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Dakotas	det
35	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 enemies	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	infinitive	the grandfather			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	past	Wakâwa	the death of a brave in battle against the Ojibways and the hereditary enemies of the Dakotas		tree rules
3	call	participle	the Ojibways and the hereditary enemies of the Dakotas not said here	Chippewas	commonly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 23