Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 55
The bones of the mastodon, the Dakotas think, are the bones of Unktéhees, and they preserve the with the greatest care in the medicine bag."
Who acts: bones, Dakotas · What happens: think, be, preserve · To what, where: bones, the, medicine bag
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 (bones, 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 bones | det |
| 2 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 think | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mastodon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mastodon | det |
| 5 | mastodon | mastodon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bones | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dakotas | det |
| 8 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 think | nsubj |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bones | punct |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bones | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bones | det |
| 13 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 think | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Unktéhees | case |
| 15 | Unktéhees | Unktéhees | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bones | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 preserve | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 preserve | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 preserve | nsubj |
| 19 | preserve | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 think | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 preserve | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 care | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 care | det |
| 23 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 care | amod |
| 24 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 preserve | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 bag | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bag | det |
| 27 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bag | compound |
| 28 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 preserve | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 preserve | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 preserve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | the bones of the mastodon | the Dakotas nsubj | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the bones | of Unktéhees | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | preserve | present | Dakotas = dakota | the | the medicine bag | with the greatest care | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent the=Beneficiary |
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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