Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 4
These Indians are now commonly called the "Sioux"--a name given them by the early French traders and _voyageurs_. "
Who acts: name · What happens: call, give · To what, where: Indians · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (name), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 called | advmod |
| 5 | commonly | commonly | ADV | _ | 6 called | advmod |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sioux | det |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sioux | punct |
| 9 | Sioux | Sioux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sioux | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 name | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Sioux | appos |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 name | acl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 given | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 traders | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 traders | det |
| 18 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 traders | amod |
| 19 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 traders | amod |
| 20 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 given | obl:agent |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 voyageurs | cc |
| 22 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 voyageurs | amod |
| 23 | voyageurs | voyageur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 traders | conj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sioux | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | this Indians | now | the Sioux xcomp; commonly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give | participle | a name not said here | Indians = indian | the early French traders and _ voyageurs obl:agent | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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