--- title: [Footnote 109: Ka-be-bón-ik-ka is the god of storms, thunder, lightn… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: [Footnote 109: Ka-be-bón-ik-ka is the god of storms, thunder, lightning, etc. His home is on Thunder-Cap at Thunder-Bay, Lake Superior. Who acts: Ka, home. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/23/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [Footnotes to the Sea-gull:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/23/) / 17 # Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 17 \[Footnote 109: Ka-be-bón-ik-ka is the god of storms, thunder, lightning, etc. His home is on Thunder-Cap at Thunder-Bay, Lake Superior. **Who acts:** Ka, home · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bón, god, Thunder Cap, Footnote This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ka, home), 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:pg8122:23:17 # text = [Footnote 109: Ka-be-bón-ik-ka is the god of storms, thunder, lightning, etc. His home is on Thunder-Cap at Thunder-Bay, Lake Superior. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Footnote footnote NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 109 109 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 5 Ka Ka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 bón bón NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ik ik NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ka ka X FW Foreign=Yes 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 storms storm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 etc. etc. NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 25 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 Thunder Thunder PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 Thunder Thunder PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Bay Bay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Lake Lake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 38 Superior Superior PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | infinitive | | bón | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Ka | the god and lightning and etc. | | | | of storms and thunder; ik *nsubj*; lightning *conj*; etc. *conj* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | Ka's home | | | Thunder Cap and Lake | | at Thunder Bay; Lake *conj* | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/23/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/23/18/) - ↑ back to [Footnotes to the Sea-gull:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/23/)