Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 58
_In_-doors, warmed by the wide-|mouthed fireplace idly the farmer, _Four_ times the sun had ris|en and set; and now on the fifth day,
Who acts: _ doors, Four · What happens: warm, mouth, have · To what, where: farmer, ris, _ doors
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 (_ doors, Four), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 doors | nsubj |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 doors | case |
| 3 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 doors | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 _ | punct |
| 5 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 warmed | punct |
| 7 | warmed | warm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 doors | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 fireplace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fireplace | det |
| 10 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fireplace | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 wide | punct |
| 12 | | | | | PUNCT | _ | 13 mouthed | punct |
| 13 | mouthed | mouth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 fireplace | amod |
| 14 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 warmed | obl |
| 15 | idly | idly | ADV | _ | 17 farmer | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 farmer | det |
| 17 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 warmed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Four | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 Four | punct |
| 20 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 had | nsubj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 times | punct |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 had | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sun | det |
| 24 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 doors | parataxis |
| 26 | ris | ris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 27 | | | | | CCONJ | _ | 28 en | cc |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ris | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 set | cc |
| 30 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ris | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 day | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 day | cc |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 day | advmod |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 day | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 day | det |
| 36 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 day | amod |
| 37 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doors | appos |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm | participle | _ doors _ not said here | the farmer | by the wide mouthed fireplace | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | mouth | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | Four | ris | en and set | time | the sun nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ris=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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