Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 42
The Dakotas call it _Wanagee-Tach-anku_--The path-way of the spirits and believe that over this path the spirits of the dead pass to the Spirit-land.
Who acts: Dakotas · What happens: call, believe · To what, where: note · 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), 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 Dakotas | det |
| 2 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wanagee | punct |
| 6 | Wanagee | Wanagee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 call | xcomp |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tach | punct |
| 8 | Tach | Tach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wanagee | conj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 anku | punct |
| 10 | anku | anku | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 Wanagee | dep |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wanagee | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 14 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 way | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 path | punct |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Wanagee | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 spirits | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spirits | det |
| 19 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 way | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 believe | cc |
| 21 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 path | mark |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 path | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 path | det |
| 25 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 believe | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spirits | det |
| 27 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 path | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 pass | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pass | det |
| 30 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 pass | amod |
| 31 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spirits | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 land | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 land | det |
| 34 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 land | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Spirit | punct |
| 36 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pass | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | the Dakotas | note | Wanagee and Tach xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 2 | believe | present | the Dakotas not said here | this path the spirits of the dead pass to the Spirit land ccomp | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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