Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 40

They have false oats, (wild rice) use little canoes, _and keep their word strictly_."

Who acts: Dakotas, wild rice · What happens: have, use, keep, word · To what, where: false oats, little canoes, word

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, wild rice), 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	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 oats	amod
4	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 use	punct
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 rice	punct
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rice	amod
8	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	nsubj
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 rice	punct
10	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 canoes	amod
12	canoes	canoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 _	punct
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 use	discourse
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 keep	cc
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 use	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 word	nmod:poss
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keep	obj
19	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	16 keep	advmod
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 keep	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Dakotas = dakota	false oats		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oat=Patient
2	use	present	wild rice	little canoes		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Patient
3	keep	infinitive	wild rice not said here	Dakotas's word	strictly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	word		Dakotas = dakota			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 40