Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 60

Tradition says a Dakota "Helen" was the cause of the separation and a bloody feud that lasted for many years.

Who acts: Tradition, Dakota, bloody feud · What happens: say, be, last · To what, where: cause · 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 (Tradition, Dakota, bloody feud), 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	Tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Dakota	det
4	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cause	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Helen	punct
6	Helen	Helen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Dakota	appos
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Helen	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cause	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cause	det
10	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 separation	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 separation	det
13	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cause	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 feud	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 feud	det
16	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 feud	amod
17	feud	feud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 separation	conj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lasted	nsubj
19	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 feud	acl:relcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 years	case
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 years	amod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lasted	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Tradition				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	a Dakota	the cause		of the separation and a bloody feud	tree rules
3	last	past	a bloody feud		year		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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 60

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 60