Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 3
I have for several years devoted many of my leisure hours to the study of the language, history, traditions, customs and superstitions of the Dakotas.
Who acts: I, several years · What happens: have, devote, study · To what, where: study, language
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 (I, several years), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 devoted | mark |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 devoted | nsubj |
| 6 | devoted | devote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | ccomp |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hours | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hours | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hours | nmod:poss |
| 10 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hours | compound |
| 11 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 devoted | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 study | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 study | det |
| 14 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 devoted | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 language | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 language | det |
| 17 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 study | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 history | punct |
| 19 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 language | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 traditions | punct |
| 21 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 study | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 customs | punct |
| 23 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 traditions | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 superstitions | cc |
| 25 | superstitions | superstition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 traditions | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Dakotas | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Dakotas | det |
| 28 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 superstitions | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | devote | past | several years | hour | to the study of the language and history and traditions and customs and superstitions of the Dakotas goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent to study=Goal | |||
| 3 | study | the language and history | nom study «act 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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