Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 18

[Footnote 57: The Dakotas called the Ojibways the "Snakes of the Forest," on account of their lying in ambush for their enemies.]

Who acts: Dakotas, Ojibways · What happens: call, account, lie · To what, where: Footnote, account, lying, ambush · 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 (Dakotas, Ojibways), 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	7 called	obl
3	57	57	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Footnote	flat
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 Footnote	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dakotas	det
6	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 called	nsubj
7	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ojibways	det
9	Ojibways	Ojibway	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 called	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Snakes	det
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Snakes	punct
12	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 called	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Forest	det
15	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Snakes	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 account	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 account	punct
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 account	case
19	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 lying	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 lying	nmod:poss
22	lying	lying	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 account	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 ambush	case
24	ambush	ambush	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lying	nmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 enemies	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 enemies	nmod:poss
27	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ambush	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
29	]	]	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past	the Dakotas	Footnote	account of Ojibways's lying in ambush for Ojibways's enemies	the Ojibways obj; the Snakes of the Forest obj	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ojibway=Theme snake=Result
2	account			Ojibways's lying in ambush for Ojibways's enemies			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	lie		Ojibways = ojibway		ambush for Ojibways's enemies		nom lying «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 18