Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 21

Macaulay says of Britain, "Her inhabitants, when first they became known to the Tyrian mariners, were little superior to the natives of the Sandwich Islands."

Who acts: Macaulay, inhabitants · What happens: say, become, know, be · 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 (Macaulay, inhabitants), 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	Macaulay	Macaulay	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Britain	case
4	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 inhabitants	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 inhabitants	punct
7	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 inhabitants	nmod:poss
8	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 superior	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 first	advmod
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 became	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 inhabitants	acl
14	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 became	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 mariners	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mariners	det
17	Tyrian	tyrian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mariners	amod
18	mariners	mariner	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 known	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 superior	cop
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 superior	amod
22	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 natives	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 natives	det
25	natives	native	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 superior	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 Islands	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Islands	det
28	Sandwich	Sandwich	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Islands	compound
29	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 natives	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 superior	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Macaulay	of Britain	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	become in a quote	past	inhabitants = inhabitant	first property	tree rules
3	know in a quote	participle	inhabitants = inhabitant not said here	to the Tyrian mariners	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	past	Macaulay's inhabitants	to the natives of the Sandwich Islands; superior property	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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 21