Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 55

The Dakotas say that, in olden times, white bears were often found about Rainy Lake and the Lake of the Woods, in winter, and sometimes as far south as the mouth of the Minnesota.

Who acts: Dakotas · What happens: say, find · To what, where: olden times · 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 (Dakotas), 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 Dakotas	det
2	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 found	mark
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 times	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 times	case
7	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 found	nsubj:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bears	punct
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bears	amod
11	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 times	conj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux:pass
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 found	advmod
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 say	ccomp
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 Lake	case
16	Rainy	Rainy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Lake	compound
17	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Lake	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Lake	det
20	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Lake	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Woods	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Woods	det
23	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 Lake	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 winter	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 winter	case
26	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 south	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 south	cc
29	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 south	advmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 far	advmod
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 south	advmod
32	south	south	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 mouth	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mouth	det
35	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 south	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 Minnesota	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Minnesota	det
38	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 mouth	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Dakotas					south property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	past · passive		olden times and white bears			winter	about Rainy Lake and the Lake of the Woods; often property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 55