Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 50
Loud from its rocky cav|erns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents discon|solate answers the wail of the forest.
Who acts: accents discon, forest · What happens: voice, neighbor, solate, answer, wail · To what, where: wail, rocky cav
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 (accents discon, forest), 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 | Loud | loud | ADV | _ | 5 cav | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 cav | case |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cav | nmod:poss |
| 4 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cav | amod |
| 5 | cav | cav | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | | | | | PUNCT | _ | 7 erns | punct |
| 7 | erns | ern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cav | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ocean | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ocean | det |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voiced | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 deep | punct |
| 12 | voiced | voice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ocean | amod |
| 13 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 ocean | amod |
| 14 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cav | parataxis |
| 15 | Speaks | Speaks | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ocean | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 answers | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 answers | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 accents | case |
| 19 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 discon | compound |
| 20 | discon | discon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 answers | nsubj |
| 21 | | | | | PUNCT | _ | 22 solate | punct |
| 22 | solate | solate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 discon | acl |
| 23 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cav | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wail | det |
| 25 | wail | wail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 answers | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 forest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forest | det |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wail | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cav | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | voice speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | solate | infinitive | accents discon not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | present | accents discon | the wail of the forest | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wail=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | wail | the forest | nom wail «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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