Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 90

They call it I-yân-ska, probably from "íya," to speak, and "ska," white, truthful, peaceful,--hence, peace-pipe, herald of peace, pledge of truth, etc. In the cabinet at Albany, N.Y., there is a very ancient pipe of this material which the Iroquois obtained from the Dakotas.

Who acts: Dakotas, I, ancient pipe, Iroquois · What happens: call, ska, speak, be, obtain, pledge · To what, where: East, material, Dakotas, truth, cabinet · 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, I, ancient pipe, Iroquois), 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 call	nsubj
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 call	obj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 ska	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 I	punct
6	yân	yân	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ska	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 yân	punct
8	ska	ska	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 call	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 íya	punct
10	probably	probably	ADV	_	13 íya	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 íya	case
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 íya	punct
13	íya	íya	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ska	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 speak	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 speak	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 speak	mark
17	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 íya	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ska	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ska	cc
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 ska	punct
21	ska	ska	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ska	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 white	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 white	punct
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ska	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 truthful	punct
26	truthful	truthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 white	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 peaceful	punct
28	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 white	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pipe	punct
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 pipe	punct
31	hence	hence	ADV	_	35 pipe	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hence	punct
33	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pipe	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 peace	punct
35	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ska	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 herald	punct
37	herald	herald	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pipe	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 peace	case
39	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 herald	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 pledge	punct
41	pledge	pledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ska	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 truth	case
43	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pledge	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 etc.	punct
45	etc.	etc.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	41 pledge	conj
46	In	in	ADP	_	48 cabinet	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 cabinet	det
48	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pledge	nmod
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 Albany	case
50	Albany	Albany	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 cabinet	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 N.Y	punct
52	N.Y	N.Y	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Albany	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 call	punct
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 is	punct
55	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	56 is	expl
56	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 call	parataxis
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 pipe	det
58	very	very	ADV	_	59 ancient	advmod
59	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 pipe	amod
60	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 is	nsubj
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 material	case
62	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	63 material	det
63	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 pipe	nmod
64	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	67 obtained	obj
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 Iroquois	det
66	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 obtained	nsubj
67	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 material	acl:relcl
68	from	from	ADP	_	70 Dakotas	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 Dakotas	det
70	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 obtained	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present	Dakotas = dakota	East			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	ska		I			íya appos; ska peace pipe and herald of peace conj; pledge of truth in the cabinet at Albany and N.Y and etc. conj	tree rules
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be	present	a ancient pipe of this material		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	obtain	past	the Iroquois	this material	the Dakotas		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Theme from dakotas=Source
6	pledge			truth	the cabinet at Albany and N.Y		nom pledge «possession transitive»: of=patient in=place

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 90

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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 90