Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 38

They do not speak at great feasts, and when a stranger arrives give him to eat of a wooden fork, as we would a child.

Who acts: Dakotas, stranger · What happens: not speak, arrive, give, eat · To what, where: great feasts, stranger · 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, stranger), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speak	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 speak	advmod
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 feasts	case
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feasts	amod
7	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 speak	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 give	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 arrives	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stranger	det
12	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrives	nsubj
13	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 give	advcl
14	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 give	advcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 fork	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fork	det
20	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fork	amod
21	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 child	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	27 child	case
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 child	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 child	aux
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 child	det
27	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	present · do-support	Dakotas = dakota		great feasts		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	arrive	present	a stranger				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	present	Dakotas = dakota not said here	stranger			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	Dakotas = dakota not said here			of a wooden fork; as a child we	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of fork=Source

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 38

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 38