Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 24
The degenerate remnants of that once powerful and warlike people still linger around the forts and agencies of the Northwest, or chase the caribou and the bison on the banks of the Sascatchewan, but the Dakotas of old are no more.
Who acts: degenerate remnants, Dakotas · What happens: linger, chase, not be · To what, where: forts, caribou, banks
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 (degenerate remnants, Dakotas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 remnants | det |
| 2 | degenerate | degenerate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remnants | amod |
| 3 | remnants | remnant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 linger | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 remnants | nmod |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 powerful | advmod |
| 7 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 warlike | cc |
| 9 | warlike | warlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 powerful | conj |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 linger | nsubj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 linger | advmod |
| 12 | linger | linger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 forts | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forts | det |
| 15 | forts | fort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 linger | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 agencies | cc |
| 17 | agencies | agency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 forts | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Northwest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Northwest | det |
| 20 | Northwest | Northwest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 agencies | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 chase | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 chase | cc |
| 23 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 linger | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 caribou | det |
| 25 | caribou | caribou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chase | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bison | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bison | det |
| 28 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 caribou | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 banks | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 banks | det |
| 31 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 chase | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Sascatchewan | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Sascatchewan | det |
| 34 | Sascatchewan | Sascatchewan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 banks | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 more | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 more | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Dakotas | det |
| 38 | Dakotas | Dakotas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 more | nsubj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 old | case |
| 40 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Dakotas | nmod |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 more | cop |
| 42 | no | no | ADV | _ | 43 more | advmod |
| 43 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 linger | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 linger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | linger | present | the degenerate remnants of that | the forts and agencies of the Northwest | still | powerful people nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around fort=Location | ||
| 2 | chase | infinitive | the degenerate remnants of that not said here | the caribou and the bison | the banks of the Sascatchewan | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent caribou=Theme on bank=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | not is | present | the Dakotas of old | more 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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