Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 25
The brilliant defeat of Custer, by Sitting Bull and his braves, was their last grand rally against the resistless march of the sons of the Saxons and the Celts.
Who acts: brilliant defeat · What happens: sit, be, defeat · To what, where: Bull, last grand rally, Custer
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 (brilliant defeat), 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 defeat | det |
| 2 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 defeat | amod |
| 3 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rally | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Custer | case |
| 5 | Custer | Custer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 defeat | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sitting | punct |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 Sitting | mark |
| 8 | Sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 defeat | acl |
| 9 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sitting | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 braves | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 braves | nmod:poss |
| 12 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Bull | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 defeat | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rally | cop |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 rally | nmod:poss |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rally | amod |
| 17 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rally | amod |
| 18 | rally | rally | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 march | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 march | det |
| 21 | resistless | resistless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 march | amod |
| 22 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rally | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sons | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sons | det |
| 25 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 march | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Saxons | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Saxons | det |
| 28 | Saxons | Saxon | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 sons | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Celts | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Celts | det |
| 31 | Celts | Celt | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 Saxons | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 rally | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | the brilliant defeat of Custer not said here | Bull and Custer's braves | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bull=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the brilliant defeat of Custer | braves's last grand rally | against the resistless march of the sons of the Saxons and the Celts; braves = brave nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | defeat | Custer | nom defeat «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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