Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 95
[Footnote 25: Buying is the honorable way of taking a wife among the Dakotas.
Who acts: Footnote Buying, honorable way · What happens: be, take · To what, where: honorable way, wife
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 (Footnote Buying, honorable way), 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 | 5 Buying | compound |
| 3 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 5 | Buying | buying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | honorable | honorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 taking | mark |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obj |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 Dakotas | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Dakotas | det |
| 16 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 taking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Footnote Buying | the honorable way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the honorable way not said here | a wife | among the Dakotas | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |
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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