Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 1

[Footnote 49: Prairie's Pride.--This annual shrub, which abounds on many of the sandy prairies in Minnesota, is sometimes called "tea-plant," "sage-plant," and "red-root willow."

Who acts: annual shrub, Prairie · What happens: abound, call, pride · To what, where: many sandy prairies, Footnote · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (annual shrub, Prairie), 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	27 called	nsubj:pass
3	49	49	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Footnote	flat
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Pride	punct
5	Prairie	Prairie	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Pride	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Prairie	case
7	Pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Footnote	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Pride	punct
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 shrub	punct
10	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 shrub	det
11	annual	annual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shrub	amod
12	shrub	shrub	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Pride	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 abounds	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 abounds	nsubj
15	abounds	abound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 shrub	acl:relcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	21 prairies	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 prairies	amod
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 prairies	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 prairies	det
20	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 prairies	amod
21	prairies	prairie	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 abounds	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 Minnesota	case
23	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 prairies	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Footnote	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 called	aux:pass
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 called	advmod
27	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 plant	punct
29	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 plant	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 tea	punct
31	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 called	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 plant	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 plant	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 plant	punct
35	sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 plant	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 sage	punct
37	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 called	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 plant	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 plant	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 willow	cc
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 willow	punct
42	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 root	amod
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 red	punct
44	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 willow	compound
45	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 plant	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 willow	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 willow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	abound	present	this annual shrub		the many sandy prairies in Minnesota		vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on prairie=Location
2	call	present · passive		Footnote and Prairie's Pride and this annual shrub		sage plant and root willow obl; tea plant xcomp; sometimes property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	pride		Prairie				nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 1

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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 1