Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 26
The plow-shares of a superior race are fast leveling the sacred mounds of their dead.
Who acts: plow shares · What happens: level, share · To what, where: sacred mounds, superior race
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 (plow shares), 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 | 4 shares | det |
| 2 | plow | plow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shares | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 plow | punct |
| 4 | shares | share | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leveling | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 race | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 race | det |
| 7 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 race | amod |
| 8 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shares | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 leveling | aux |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 leveling | advmod |
| 11 | leveling | level | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mounds | det |
| 13 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mounds | amod |
| 14 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leveling | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dead | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dead | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mounds | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 leveling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | level | present · progressive | the plow shares of a superior race | the sacred mounds of shares's dead | fast property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mound=Patient | |||
| 2 | share | a superior race | nom share «possession 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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