Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 60

Some say that at the bidding of the Great Unktéhee, men sprang full grown from the caverns of the earth.

Who acts: Some, men · What happens: say, spring, grow, bid · To what, where: bidding, Great Unktéhee · 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 (Some, men), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 sprang	mark
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 bidding	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bidding	det
6	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sprang	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Unktéhee	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Unktéhee	det
9	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Unktéhee	amod
10	Unktéhee	Unktéhee	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bidding	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bidding	punct
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sprang	nsubj
13	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sprang	xcomp
15	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 full	acl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 caverns	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 caverns	det
18	caverns	cavern	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grown	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 earth	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 earth	det
21	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 caverns	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spring	past	men		the bidding of the Great Unktéhee	full property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bidding=Trajectory
3	grow	participle				from the caverns of the earth	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from cavern=Patient
4	bid			the Great Unktéhee			nom bidding «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 60

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 60