Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 125
The Mississippi River they called Ha-Ha Wá-kpa--River of the Falls.
Who acts: Mississippi River · What happens: call · To what, where: Ha Wá kpa · 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 (Mississippi River), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 River | det |
| 2 | Mississippi | Mississippi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 River | compound |
| 3 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Ha | Ha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kpa | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ha | punct |
| 8 | Ha | Ha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ha | conj |
| 9 | Wá | Wá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kpa | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wá | punct |
| 11 | kpa | kpa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 River | punct |
| 13 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kpa | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Falls | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Falls | det |
| 16 | Falls | Falls | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 River | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | the Mississippi River | Ha Wá kpa | Footnote nsubj | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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