Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 18
With open arms and generous hospitality they welcomed the first white men to their land; and were ever faithful in their friendship, till years of wrong and robbery, and want and insult, drove them to desperation and to war.
Who acts: traders · What happens: welcome, be, want, insult, drive · To what, where: first white men, friendship, traders, desperation
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 (traders), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 arms | case |
| 2 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 arms | amod |
| 3 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 drove | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hospitality | cc |
| 5 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hospitality | amod |
| 6 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arms | conj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 welcomed | nsubj |
| 8 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hospitality | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 men | amod |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 welcomed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 land | nmod:poss |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 men | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 faithful | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 faithful | cc |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 faithful | cop |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 faithful | advmod |
| 20 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 arms | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 friendship | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 friendship | nmod:poss |
| 23 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 faithful | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 years | punct |
| 25 | till | till | ADP | _ | 26 years | case |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 faithful | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wrong | case |
| 28 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 years | acl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 robbery | cc |
| 30 | robbery | robbery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wrong | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 want | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 want | cc |
| 33 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 faithful | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 insult | cc |
| 35 | insult | insult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 want | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arms | punct |
| 37 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 drove | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 desperation | case |
| 40 | desperation | desperation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 drove | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 war | cc |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 war | case |
| 43 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 desperation | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | past | traders = trader | the first white men | to traders's land | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | traders's friendship | ever | faithful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | want | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 4 | insult | present | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | drive | past | traders = trader | desperation and war | with open arms and generous hospitality | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to desperation=Trajectory |
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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