Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 44

[Footnote 69: Oonk-táy-hee--There are many Unktéhees, children of the Great Unktéhee, who created the earth and man and who formerly dwelt in a vast cavern under the Falls of St. Anthony.

Who acts: many Unktéhees · What happens: be, create, dwell · To what, where: earth, vast cavern, Footnote

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 (many Unktéhees), 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	69	69	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Footnote	flat
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 hee	punct
5	Oonk	Oonk	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hee	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Oonk	punct
7	táy	táy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hee	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 táy	punct
9	hee	hee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Footnote	appos
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 are	punct
11	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 are	expl
12	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hee	parataxis
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Unktéhees	amod
14	Unktéhees	unktéhee	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 are	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 children	punct
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 Unktéhees	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Unktéhee	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Unktéhee	det
19	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Unktéhee	amod
20	Unktéhee	Unktéhee	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 children	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 created	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 created	nsubj
23	created	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Unktéhees	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 earth	det
25	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 created	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 man	cc
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 earth	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 dwelt	cc
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 dwelt	nsubj
30	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	31 dwelt	advmod
31	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 created	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 cavern	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 cavern	det
34	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cavern	amod
35	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dwelt	obl
36	under	under	ADP	_	38 Falls	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Falls	det
38	Falls	Falls	PROPN	Number=Plur	35 cavern	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 Anthony	case
40	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Anthony	nmod:desc
41	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Falls	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Footnote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	many Unktéhees and children of the Great Unktéhee		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	create	past	many Unktéhees and children of the Great Unktéhee	the earth and man			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Result
3	dwell	past			a vast cavern under the Falls of Anthony St.	who nsubj; formerly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cavern=Location

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 44

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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 44