Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 20
They were ignorant and superstitious, but their condition closely resembled the condition of our British forefathers at the beginning of the Christian era.
Who acts: traders, condition · What happens: be, resemble, condition, begin · To what, where: condition, British forefathers, Christian era
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, condition), 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 ignorant | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ignorant | cop |
| 3 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 superstitious | cc |
| 5 | superstitious | superstitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ignorant | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 resembled | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 resembled | cc |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 condition | nmod:poss |
| 9 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resembled | nsubj |
| 10 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 11 resembled | advmod |
| 11 | resembled | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ignorant | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 condition | det |
| 13 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resembled | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 forefathers | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 forefathers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 forefathers | amod |
| 17 | forefathers | forefather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 condition | nmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 beginning | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beginning | det |
| 20 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forefathers | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 era | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 era | det |
| 23 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 era | amod |
| 24 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beginning | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ignorant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | traders = trader | ignorant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | traders = trader not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | resemble | past | traders's condition | the condition of our British forefathers at the beginning of the Christian era | closely property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | condition | traders = trader | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | condition | our British forefathers at the beginning of the Christian era | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | begin | the Christian era | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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