Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 56

They say one was once killed at White Bear Lake (but a few miles from St. Paul and Minneapolis), and they therefore named the lake Medé Mató--White Bear Lake.]

Who acts: Dakotas · What happens: say, kill, name · To what, where: one, White Bear Lake, lake · 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 killed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 killed	aux:pass
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 killed	advmod
6	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 say	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 Lake	case
8	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Lake	amod
9	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Lake	compound
10	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 killed	obl
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 miles	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 miles	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 miles	det
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 miles	amod
15	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Lake	appos
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 Paul	case
17	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Paul	nmod:desc
18	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 miles	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Minneapolis	cc
20	Minneapolis	Minneapolis	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Paul	conj
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 miles	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 named	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 named	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 named	nsubj
25	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	26 named	advmod
26	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lake	det
28	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 named	obj
29	Medé	Medé	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lake	appos
30	Mató	Mató	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Medé	flat
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 Lake	punct
32	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Lake	amod
33	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Lake	compound
34	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lake	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
36	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Dakotas = dakota				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill	past · passive		one	White Bear Lake	once property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	name	past	Dakotas = dakota	the lake and White Bear Lake		therefore property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Theme

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 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 56