Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 50
[a] Spirit River, now called _Rum_ River.
What happens: call · To what, where: Spirit River · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | _ | 5 River | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 River | det |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 a | punct |
| 4 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 River | compound |
| 5 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 called | advmod |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 River | acl |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 10 | Rum | Rum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 River | compound |
| 11 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 River | compound |
| 12 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 River | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a Spirit River not said here | now | Rum _ River xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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