Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 27
[b] Tonka Mede--Great Lake, i.e. Lake Superior.
To what, where: Tonka
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: 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 | _ | 2 b | punct |
| 2 | b | b | NUM | _ | 4 Tonka | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 b | punct |
| 4 | Tonka | Tonka | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Mede | Mede | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tonka | flat |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lake | punct |
| 7 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Lake | amod |
| 8 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tonka | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Superior | punct |
| 10 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 12 Superior | advmod |
| 11 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Superior | compound |
| 12 | Superior | Superior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tonka | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tonka | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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