Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 62

The Great Unktéhee and the Great Thunder-bird had a terrible battle in the bowels of the earth to determine which should be the ruler of the world.

Who acts: Great Unktéhee · What happens: have, determine, be · To what, where: terrible battle, bowels, ruler

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 (Great Unktéhee), 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	3 Unktéhee	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Unktéhee	amod
3	Unktéhee	Unktéhee	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bird	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
6	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bird	amod
7	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bird	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Thunder	punct
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Unktéhee	conj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 battle	det
12	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 battle	amod
13	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 bowels	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bowels	det
16	bowels	bowel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 battle	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 earth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 earth	det
19	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bowels	nmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 determine	mark
21	determine	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 earth	acl
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 ruler	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 ruler	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 ruler	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ruler	det
26	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 determine	ccomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ruler	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Great Unktéhee and the Great Thunder bird	a terrible battle	the bowels of the earth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Patient
2	determine	to-infinitive	the Great Unktéhee and the Great Thunder bird not said here				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	should		the ruler		of the world; which nsubj	tree rules

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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 62