Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 11
[a] The small island of rock a few rods below the Falls, was called by the Dakotas Wanagee We-ta-Spirit-Island.
Who acts: Dakotas Wanagee · What happens: call · To what, where: small island · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dakotas Wanagee), 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 | _ | 3 ] | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ] | det |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | root | root |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 island | amod |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ] | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 island | nmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rods | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rods | amod |
| 11 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rock | nmod |
| 12 | below | below | ADP | _ | 14 Falls | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Falls | det |
| 14 | Falls | Falls | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 rods | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 island | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Wanagee | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Wanagee | det |
| 20 | Dakotas | Dakotas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Wanagee | compound |
| 21 | Wanagee | Wanagee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | obl |
| 22 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 ta | nsubj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 ta | punct |
| 24 | ta | ta | X | _ | 21 Wanagee | appos |
| 25 | | | X | _ | 24 ta | goeswith |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Spirit | punct |
| 27 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 | appos |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Island | punct |
| 29 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Spirit | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ] | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the Dakotas Wanagee | the small island of rock a few rods below the Falls not said here | 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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