Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 160
Carver's Cave at St. Paul was also called Wakan Teepee, because the Medicine-men or magicians often held their dances and feasts in it.
Who acts: Medicine men, Wakan · What happens: call, hold, dance · To what, where: Cave, dances · 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 (Medicine men, 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 | Carver | carver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Cave | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Carver | case |
| 3 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Paul | case |
| 5 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Paul | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cave | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 called | advmod |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | Wakan | Wakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | Teepee | Teepee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Wakan | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 held | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 held | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 15 | Medicine | Medicine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 men | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Medicine | punct |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 held | nsubj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 magicians | cc |
| 19 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 men | conj |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 21 held | advmod |
| 21 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 dances | nmod:poss |
| 23 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 held | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 feasts | cc |
| 25 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 dances | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 held | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | Carver's Cave at Paul St. | Wakan xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the Medicine men or magicians | Wakan's dances and feasts | Cave | often property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dance=Theme in it=Location | ||
| 3 | dance | Wakan | nom dance «communication 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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