Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 31
[b] _Gitchee seebee_--Big River--the Ojibway name for the Mississippi, which is a corruption of Gitchee Seebee--as Michigan is a corruption of _Gitchee Gumee_--Great Lake, the Ojibway name of Lake Superior.
Who acts: Big River, Michigan · What happens: be, name · To what, where: corruption, Gitchee seebee, Lake
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big River, Michigan), 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 | _ | 6 seebee | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 b | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 seebee | punct |
| 5 | Gitchee | Gitchee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seebee | compound |
| 6 | seebee | seebee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 River | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 River | punct |
| 9 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 River | flat |
| 10 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seebee | appos |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 name | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 name | det |
| 13 | Ojibway | Ojibway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 name | compound |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 River | appos |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Mississippi | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Mississippi | det |
| 17 | Mississippi | Mississippi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 name | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 corruption | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 corruption | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 corruption | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 corruption | det |
| 22 | corruption | corruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 River | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Gitchee | case |
| 24 | Gitchee | Gitchee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 corruption | nmod |
| 25 | Seebee | Seebee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Gitchee | flat |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 corruption | punct |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 corruption | case |
| 28 | Michigan | Michigan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 corruption | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 corruption | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 corruption | det |
| 31 | corruption | corruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seebee | appos |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Gitchee | case |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 of | punct |
| 34 | Gitchee | Gitchee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 corruption | nmod |
| 35 | Gumee | Gumee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Gitchee | flat |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 corruption | punct |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 Lake | punct |
| 38 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Lake | amod |
| 39 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seebee | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 name | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 name | det |
| 42 | Ojibway | Ojibway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 name | compound |
| 43 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Lake | appos |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Lake | case |
| 45 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 name | nmod |
| 46 | Superior | Superior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Lake | flat |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seebee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Big River | a corruption | of Gitchee | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | Michigan | as a corruption; of Gitchee | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | Lake | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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