Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 31
In the following Dakota Legends I have endeavored to faithfully represent many of the customs and superstitions, and some of the traditions, of that people.
Who acts: I · What happens: follow, endeavor, represent · To what, where: Dakota Legends, many
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Legends | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Legends | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Legends | case |
| 4 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Legends | compound |
| 5 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 endeavored | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 endeavored | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 endeavored | aux |
| 8 | endeavored | endeavor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 represent | mark |
| 10 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 11 represent | advmod |
| 11 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 endeavored | advcl |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 represent | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 customs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 customs | det |
| 15 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 many | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 superstitions | cc |
| 17 | superstitions | superstition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 customs | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 traditions | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 traditions | cc |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 traditions | det |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 traditions | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 traditions | det |
| 23 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 endeavored | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 people | punct |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 people | det |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 endeavored | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 endeavored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | endeavor | present · perfect | I | the Dakota Legends | of some traditions; of that people | tree rules | |||
| 3 | represent | to-infinitive | I not said here | many of the customs and superstitions | faithfully property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot many=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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