Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 13
They also say that from time out of mind, war-eagles nested on that island, until the advent of white men frightened them away.
Who acts: spirits, advent · What happens: say, nest, frighten away · To what, where: that, war eagles, island, spirits · 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 (spirits, advent), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 say | advmod |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 say | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | obl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eagles | punct |
| 11 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eagles | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 war | punct |
| 13 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 time | conj |
| 14 | nested | nest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 eagles | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 island | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 island | det |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nested | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 frightened | punct |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 frightened | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 advent | det |
| 21 | advent | advent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 frightened | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 men | case |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 men | amod |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 advent | nmod |
| 25 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | parataxis |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 frightened | obj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 frightened | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | spirits = spirit | that | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 2 | nest | participle | war eagles not said here | that island | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | frighten away | past | the advent of white men | spirits = spirit | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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