Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 59
They speak the Dakota tongue, and originally were a band of that nation.
Who acts: roasters · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: Dakota tongue, band · 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 (roasters), 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 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tongue | det |
| 4 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tongue | compound |
| 5 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 speak | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 band | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 band | cc |
| 8 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 11 band | advmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 band | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 band | det |
| 11 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 speak | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 nation | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 nation | det |
| 14 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 band | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | roasters = roaster | the Dakota tongue | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a band | of that nation; originally property | tree rules |
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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