--- title: The Chippewas called the grandfather "Kâ-kâ-keé"--crow or raven--fro… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: The Chippewas called the grandfather "Kâ-kâ-keé"--crow or raven--from his war-badge, a crow-skin; and hence the French traders and _courriers du bois_ called him "_Petit Corbeau_"--Little Crow. Who acts: Kâ, Crow. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kâ, Crow), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:20:15 # text = The Chippewas called the grandfather "Kâ-kâ-keé"--crow or raven--from his war-badge, a crow-skin; and hence the French traders and _courriers du bois_ called him "_Petit Corbeau_"--Little Crow. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Chippewas chippewa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 grandfather grandfather NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Kâ Kâ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 kâ kâ NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 keé keé NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 -- -- PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 20 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 badge badge NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 hence hence ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 traders trader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 courriers courrier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 37 du du X FW Foreign=Yes 33 nmod _ _ 38 bois boi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 40 punct _ _ 40 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 Petit Petit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 Corbeau Corbeau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 -- -- PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 Crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle | | the Chippewas and Crow's war badge and a crow skin and the French traders du bois and courriers and Little Crow *not said here* | the grandfather | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandfather=Recipient | | 2 | **keé** *in a quote* | | Kâ | | | | | crow or raven *conj* | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | participle | | bois *not said here* | Kâ | | | Petit Corbeau *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 5 | **badge** | | Crow | | | | | | nom badge «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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/20/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/20/16/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/20/)