Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 80
[a] The Robin--the name of Winona's Mother.
What happens: name · To what, where: Robin, Mother
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 Robin | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Robin | det |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 Robin | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Robin | det |
| 5 | Robin | Robin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Robin | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Mother | case |
| 10 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Winona | case |
| 12 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Robin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | name | Winona's Mother | 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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