Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 62
It is however subject to laws that confine its variety within certain limits.
Who acts: plurality, laws · What happens: be, confine · To what, where: variety
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 (plurality, laws), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 subject | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 subject | cop |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 subject | advmod |
| 4 | subject | subject | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 laws | case |
| 6 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 subject | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 confine | nsubj |
| 8 | confine | confine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 laws | acl:relcl |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 variety | nmod:poss |
| 10 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confine | obj |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 limits | case |
| 12 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 limits | amod |
| 13 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 confine | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 subject | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | plurality | to laws; however, subject property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | confine | present | laws | plurality's variety | within certain limits | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent variety=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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