Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 33

1669, writing to his Superior, thus describes the Dakotas: "The Nadouessi are the Iroquois of this country, beyond La Pointe, _but less faithless, and never attack till attacked.

Who acts: Dakotas · What happens: write, describe, be, not attack, attack · To what, where: Superior, Iroquois, 1669 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5. 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	1669	1669	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 writing	punct
3	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 1669	conj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Superior	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Superior	nmod:poss
6	Superior	Superior	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 writing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 describes	punct
8	thus	thus	ADV	_	9 describes	advmod
9	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 writing	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Dakotas	det
11	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Iroquois	nsubj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Nadouessi	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Nadouessi	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Nadouessi	det
15	Nadouessi	Nadouessi	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Dakotas	nmod
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Iroquois	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Iroquois	det
18	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 describes	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 country	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 country	det
21	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Iroquois	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 La	punct
23	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	24 La	case
24	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Iroquois	appos
25	Pointe	Pointe	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 La	flat
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 La	punct
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 La	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 faithless	cc
29	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 faithless	advmod
30	faithless	faithless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 La	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 attack	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 attack	cc
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 attack	advmod
34	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 describes	parataxis
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 attacked	mark
36	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 attack	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 1669	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	write	gerund			Marquette's Superior		vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to superior=Recipient
2	describe	present				thus property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	the Dakotas the Nadouessi	the Iroquois		of this country; La appos	tree rules
4	not attack in a quote	infinitive					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	attack in a quote	participle					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 5, sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 33