Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 36
[a] The route of Duluth above described--from the mouth of the Wild Rice Mud River to Lake Superior--was for centuries and still is, the Indians' canoe route.
What happens: describe, be · To what, where: route, mouth
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: 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 route | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 route | det |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 route | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 route | det |
| 5 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Duluth | case |
| 7 | Duluth | Duluth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 route | nmod |
| 8 | above | above | ADP | _ | 9 described | mark |
| 9 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 route | acl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 mouth | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 mouth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mouth | det |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 described | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 River | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 River | det |
| 16 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 17 Rice | flat |
| 17 | Rice | Rice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 River | compound |
| 18 | Mud | Mud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 River | compound |
| 19 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mouth | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Lake | case |
| 21 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mouth | nmod |
| 22 | Superior | Superior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Lake | flat |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 centuries | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 centuries | cop |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 centuries | case |
| 26 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 route | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 still | cc |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 centuries | advmod |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 still | cop |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 route | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Indians | det |
| 32 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 route | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 32 Indians | case |
| 34 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 route | compound |
| 35 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 route | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 route | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | participle | a route of Duluth and centuries and the Indians's canoe route not said here | the mouth of the Rice Mud River to Lake | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | for centuries | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | still property | 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.
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