--- title: [b] The Dakotas like the ancient Romans and Greeks think the home of… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: [b] The Dakotas like the ancient Romans and Greeks think the home of the winds is in the caverns of the mountains, and their great Thunder bird resembles in many respects the Jupiter of the Romans and the Zeus of the Greeks. Who acts: Dakotas, home, great Thunder bird, many. A sentence of «Legends o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/87/) [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/) / [The Feast of the Virgins., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/) / 87 # Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 87 \[b\] The Dakotas like the ancient Romans and Greeks think the home of the winds is in the caverns of the mountains, and their great Thunder bird resembles in many respects the Jupiter of the Romans and the Zeus of the Greeks. **Who acts:** Dakotas, home, great Thunder bird, many · **What happens:** think, be, resemble, respect · **To what, where:** caverns, Jupiter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dakotas, home, great Thunder bird, many), 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:pg8122:9:87 # text = [b] The Dakotas like the ancient Romans and Greeks think the home of the winds is in the caverns of the mountains, and their great Thunder bird resembles in many respects the Jupiter of the Romans and the Zeus of the Greeks. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 b b NUM LS _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Dakotas dakota NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Greeks Greek PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 caverns cavern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 ccomp _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 Thunder Thunder PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 resembles resemble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 32 in in SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 nsubj _ _ 34 respects respect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Jupiter Jupiter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Zeus Zeus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 Greeks Greek PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the Dakotas like the ancient Romans and Greeks | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | the home of the winds | | | the caverns | | of the mountains | tree rules | | 3 | **resemble** | present | Dakotas's great Thunder bird | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **respect** | present | many | the Jupiter of the Romans and the Zeus of the Greeks | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jupiter=Stimulus | 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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/88/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/)