Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 12
When first visited by white men, and for many years afterwards, the Falls of St. Anthony (by them called the Ha-Ha) was the center of their country.
Who acts: Falls · What happens: visit, call, be · To what, where: center · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Falls), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 visited | advmod |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 visited | advmod |
| 3 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 men | amod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 visited | obl:agent |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 center | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 center | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 years | amod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Falls | obl |
| 12 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 11 years | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 years | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Falls | det |
| 15 | Falls | Falls | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 center | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Anthony | case |
| 17 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Anthony | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Falls | nmod |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 called | obl |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Falls | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Ha | det |
| 24 | Ha | Ha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Ha | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ha | punct |
| 26 | Ha | Ha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 center | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 center | det |
| 30 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 visited | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 country | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 country | nmod:poss |
| 33 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 center | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | participle | white men obl:agent; first property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | call | past | the Falls for many years of Anthony St. not said here | by Falls; the Ha Ha xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the Falls for many years of Anthony St. | the center | of Falls's country | tree rules |
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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