Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 10
I suspect he was the chief spirit of the Dakotas before the missionaries imported "Wakan Tânka"--(Great Spirit).]
Who acts: I, Minn, missionaries · What happens: suspect, be, import · To what, where: chief spirit, Wakan
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 (I, Minn, missionaries), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 suspect | nsubj |
| 2 | suspect | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spirit | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spirit | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spirit | det |
| 6 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spirit | amod |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suspect | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Dakotas | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dakotas | det |
| 10 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spirit | nmod |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 imported | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 missionaries | det |
| 13 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 imported | nsubj |
| 14 | imported | import | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 suspect | advcl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Wakan | punct |
| 16 | Wakan | Wakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 imported | obj |
| 17 | Tânka | Tânka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Wakan | flat |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Wakan | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 Spirit | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Spirit | punct |
| 21 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Spirit | amod |
| 22 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Wakan | conj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 Wakan | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 suspect | punct |
| 25 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 suspect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Minn | the chief spirit | of the Dakotas | tree rules | |||
| 3 | import | past | the missionaries | Wakan and Great Spirit | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wakan=Theme |
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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