Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 159
The teepee used for the _Wakan Wacipee_--or Sacred Dance--is called the _Wakan Teepee_--the Sacred Teepee.
Who acts: Wakan · What happens: use, call · To what, where: teepee, Sacred · 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 (Wakan), 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 | 2 teepee | det |
| 2 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 teepee | acl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Wakan | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wakan | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Wakan | punct |
| 7 | Wakan | Wakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 used | obl:agent |
| 8 | Wacipee | Wacipee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Wakan | flat |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Wakan | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 called | cc |
| 12 | Sacred | Sacred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | Dance | Dance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Sacred | flat |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sacred | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Wakan | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Wakan | det |
| 18 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Wakan | compound |
| 19 | Wakan | Wakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 20 | Teepee | Teepee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Wakan | flat |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 Teepee | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Teepee | det |
| 24 | Sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Teepee | amod |
| 25 | Teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Wakan | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 teepee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | the teepee not said here | the Wakan and the Sacred Teepee obl:agent | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | the Wakan and the Sacred Teepee not said here | Sacred | the _ Wakan xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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