Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 78
[Footnote 20: For all their sacred feasts the Dakotas kindle a new fire called "The Virgin Fire."
Who acts: Dakotas, new fire · What happens: kindle, call · To what, where: new fire, Virgin Fire, Footnote · 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, new fire), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 kindle | punct |
| 5 | For | for | ADP | _ | 9 feasts | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 feasts | det:predet |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feasts | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feasts | amod |
| 9 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kindle | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dakotas | det |
| 11 | Dakotas | Dakotas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 kindle | nsubj |
| 12 | kindle | kindle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fire | amod |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kindle | obj |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 fire | acl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Fire | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Fire | det |
| 19 | Virgin | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Fire | compound |
| 20 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kindle | infinitive | the Dakotas | a new fire | for lodge's sacred feasts | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for feast=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a new fire not said here | the Virgin Fire | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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