Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 4
There are several versions of this legend, all agreeing in the main points.
Who acts: several versions · What happens: be, agree · To what, where: main points
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 (several versions), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 versions | amod |
| 4 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 legend | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 legend | det |
| 7 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 versions | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 agreeing | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 agreeing | advmod |
| 10 | agreeing | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 versions | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 points | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 points | det |
| 13 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 points | amod |
| 14 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 agreeing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | several versions of this legend | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | gerund | several versions of this legend not said here | the main points | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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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