Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 10
White beavers are very rare, very cunning and hard to catch.
Who acts: White beavers · What happens: be, catch
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (White beavers), 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 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beavers | amod |
| 2 | beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rare | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rare | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 rare | advmod |
| 5 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cunning | punct |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 cunning | advmod |
| 8 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rare | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hard | cc |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rare | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 catch | mark |
| 12 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hard | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | White beavers | rare property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | White beavers not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | White beavers not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | catch | to-infinitive | White beavers not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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