Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 27
But yesterday, the shores of our lakes, and our rivers, were dotted with their tepees.
What happens: dot · To what, where: yesterday
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 dotted | cc |
| 2 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dotted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shores | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shores | det |
| 5 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 yesterday | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lakes | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lakes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shores | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dotted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dotted | cc |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 rivers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dotted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rivers | punct |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dotted | aux:pass |
| 15 | dotted | dot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 tepees | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tepees | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tepees | tepee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dotted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 dotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dot | past · passive | yesterday and the shores of our lakes | with rivers's tepees; our rivers nsubj:pass | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tepee=Theme |
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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