Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 84

[Footnote 21: All Northern Indians consider the East a mysterious and sacred land whence comes the sun. The Dakota name for the East is Wee-yo-heé-yan-pa--the sunrise.

Who acts: Northern Indians, Dakota name · What happens: consider, come, be · To what, where: East, sun., Wee heé yan pa, Footnote

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 (Northern Indians, Dakota name), 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	21	21	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Footnote	flat
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 consider	punct
5	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 Indians	det
6	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Indians	amod
7	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 consider	nsubj
8	consider	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Footnote	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 East	det
10	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 consider	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 land	det
12	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 land	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sacred	cc
14	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mysterious	conj
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 consider	xcomp
16	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	17 comes	advmod
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 consider	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun.	det
19	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	obj
20	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 name	det
21	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 name	compound
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pa	nsubj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 East	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 East	det
25	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 name	nmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 pa	cop
27	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pa	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 yo	punct
29	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pa	nsubj
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 yo	punct
31	heé	heé	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pa	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 yan	punct
33	yan	yan	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pa	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 yan	punct
35	pa	pa	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	obl
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 sunrise	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sunrise	det
38	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pa	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Footnote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	consider	present	all Northern Indians	the East	a mysterious land xcomp	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent east=Attribute
2	come	present	all Northern Indians not said here	the sun.	whence property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun.=Theme
3	is a	present	the Dakota name for the East	Wee heé yan pa and the sunrise	yo nsubj	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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 84

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 84