Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 26
[a] Mendota, properly _Mdó-tè_--meaning the outlet of lake or river into another, commonly applied to the region about Fort Snelling.
Who acts: Mendota, Fort · What happens: mean, apply, snell · To what, where: outlet, another, Mendota
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., 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 (Mendota, Fort), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mendota | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Mendota | det |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mendota | punct |
| 4 | Mendota | Mendota | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tè | punct |
| 6 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 10 tè | advmod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 tè | punct |
| 8 | Mdó | Mdó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tè | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mdó | punct |
| 10 | tè | tè | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Mendota | appos |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 tè | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 meaning | punct |
| 13 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Mendota | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 outlet | det |
| 15 | outlet | outlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meaning | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lake | case |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 outlet | nmod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 river | cc |
| 19 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 outlet | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 another | case |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 meaning | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 applied | punct |
| 23 | commonly | commonly | ADV | _ | 24 applied | advmod |
| 24 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 another | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 region | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 region | det |
| 27 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 applied | obl |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 Fort | case |
| 29 | Fort | Fort | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 region | nmod |
| 30 | Snelling | snell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 Fort | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mendota | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | gerund | a Mendota not said here | the outlet of lake or river | another | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outlet=Topic | |||
| 2 | apply | participle | to the region about Fort; commonly property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | snell | gerund | Fort not said here | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/12/26/