Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 95
1st Because they pertain particularly to the lakes and rivers to the fair forests and fertile fields of our own Minnesota and ought to be appreciated here if anywhere.
Who acts: Legends · What happens: pertain, appreciate · To what, where: 1st
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 (Legends), 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 | 1st | 1st | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 pertain | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 pertain | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pertain | nsubj |
| 4 | pertain | pertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 8 lakes | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lakes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lakes | det |
| 8 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pertain | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rivers | cc |
| 10 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lakes | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 forests | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forests | det |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 forests | amod |
| 14 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pertain | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fields | cc |
| 16 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fields | amod |
| 17 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 forests | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Minnesota | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Minnesota | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Minnesota | amod |
| 21 | Minnesota | Minnesota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fields | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 appreciated | cc |
| 23 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 appreciated | aux |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 appreciated | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 appreciated | aux:pass |
| 26 | appreciated | appreciate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pertain | conj |
| 27 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 appreciated | advmod |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 anywhere | mark |
| 29 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 appreciated | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pertain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pertain | present | Legends = legend | 1st | to the lakes and rivers; to the fair forests and fertile fields of our own Minnesota | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to lake=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | appreciate | ought · passive | Legends = legend not said here | here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V» |
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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