Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 41

Ke-úk-sa signifies--The village of law-breakers; so-called because this band broke the law or custom of the Dakotas against marrying blood relatives of any degree.

Who acts: Ke úk sa, band, law · What happens: signify, call, break, marry · To what, where: village, law, blood relatives · 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 (Ke úk sa, band, law), 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	Ke	Ke	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sa	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Ke	punct
3	úk	úk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sa	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 úk	punct
5	sa	sa	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 signifies	nsubj
6	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 village	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 village	det
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 signifies	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 breakers	case
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 breakers	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 law	punct
13	breakers	breaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 village	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 called	advmod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 so	punct
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 signifies	parataxis
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 broke	mark
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 band	det
20	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 broke	nsubj
21	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 called	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 law	det
23	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 broke	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 custom	cc
25	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 law	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 Dakotas	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Dakotas	det
28	Dakotas	Dakota	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 custom	nmod
29	against	against	SCONJ	_	30 marrying	mark
30	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 law	acl
31	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 relatives	compound
32	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 marrying	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 degree	case
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 degree	det
35	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 relatives	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 signifies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	signify	present	Ke úk sa	the village of law breakers	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot village=Theme
2	call	participle			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	break	past	this band	the law or custom of the Dakotas	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient
4	marry	gerund	the law or custom of the Dakotas not said here	blood relatives of any degree	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=Patient

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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 41