Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 35

They retain these names till others are given them on account of some action, peculiarity, etc. The females often retain their child-names through life.]

Who acts: Chaskè, females · What happens: retain, give, account, name · To what, where: names, others, account, child names, life, action

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 (Chaskè, females), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 retain	nsubj
2	retain	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 names	det
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 retain	obj
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 given	mark
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 given	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 given	aux:pass
8	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 retain	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 given	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 account	case
11	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 given	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 action	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 action	det
14	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 account	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 peculiarity	punct
16	peculiarity	peculiarity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 action	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 etc.	punct
18	etc.	etc.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	14 action	conj
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 females	det
20	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 retain	nsubj
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 retain	advmod
22	retain	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 etc.	acl:relcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 names	nmod:poss
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 names	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 child	punct
26	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 retain	obj
27	through	through	ADP	_	28 life	case
28	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 retain	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 retain	punct
30	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 retain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	retain	present	Chaskè	this names			tree rules
2	give	present · passive		others	account of some action and peculiarity and etc.	Chaskè obj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient they=Theme on account=Asset
3	retain	present	the females	Chaskè's child names	life	often property	tree rules
4	account			some action and peculiarity and etc.			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	name		Chaskè				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 35