Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 28
Their light canoes glided over our waters, and their hunters chased the deer and the buffalo on the sites of our cities.
Who acts: light canoes, hunters · What happens: glide, chase · To what, where: waters, deer, sites
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 (light canoes, hunters), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 canoes | compound |
| 3 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 glided | nsubj |
| 4 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 waters | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 waters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 glided | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chased | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 chased | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hunters | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chased | nsubj |
| 12 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glided | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 deer | det |
| 14 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chased | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 buffalo | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 buffalo | det |
| 17 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deer | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 sites | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sites | det |
| 20 | sites | site | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chased | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 cities | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cities | nmod:poss |
| 23 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sites | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | past | rivers's light canoes | our waters | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | chase | past | rivers's hunters | the deer and the buffalo | the sites of our cities | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent deer=Theme on site=Trajectory |
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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