Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 143
[Footnote 79: The Dakotas called Lake Calhoun--Mdé-mdó-za--Loon Lake.
What happens: call · To what, where: Dakotas, 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: 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 | root | root |
| 3 | 79 | 79 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Dakotas | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dakotas | det |
| 6 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Footnote | conj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Dakotas | acl |
| 8 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | Calhoun | Calhoun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lake | flat |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 za | punct |
| 11 | Mdé | Mdé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 za | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mdé | punct |
| 13 | mdó | mdó | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 za | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 mdó | punct |
| 15 | za | za | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Dakotas | conj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 Lake | punct |
| 17 | Loon | Loon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Lake | compound |
| 18 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 za | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the Dakotas and Mdé mdó za Loon Lake not said here | Lake xcomp | 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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