Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 96
2d Because many of our people are competent to judge whether my representations of Dakota customs, life, traditions, and superstitions are correct or not and at the same time the reading public of the North west is as intelligent and discriminating as that of any other portion of our country.
Who acts: many, superstitions, reading public, my · What happens: be, judge, read, discriminate, represent · To what, where: 2d, Dakota customs
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 (many, superstitions, reading public, my), 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 | 2d | 2d | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 competent | mark |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 competent | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 people | nmod:poss |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 many | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 competent | cop |
| 8 | competent | competent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 2d | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 judge | mark |
| 10 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 competent | xcomp |
| 11 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 13 representations | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 representations | nmod:poss |
| 13 | representations | representation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 judge | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 customs | case |
| 15 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 customs | compound |
| 16 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 representations | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 life | punct |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 customs | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 traditions | punct |
| 20 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 customs | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 correct | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 correct | cc |
| 23 | superstitions | superstition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 correct | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 correct | cop |
| 25 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 competent | conj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 not | cc |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 correct | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 intelligent | cc |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 time | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 time | amod |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 intelligent | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 public | det |
| 34 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 public | amod |
| 35 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 intelligent | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 North | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 North | det |
| 38 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 public | nmod |
| 39 | west | west | ADV | _ | 42 intelligent | advmod |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 intelligent | cop |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 intelligent | case |
| 42 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 correct | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 discriminating | cc |
| 44 | discriminating | discriminate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 intelligent | conj |
| 45 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 that | case |
| 46 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 discriminating | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 portion | case |
| 48 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 50 portion | det |
| 49 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 portion | amod |
| 50 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 that | nmod |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 country | case |
| 52 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 country | nmod:poss |
| 53 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 portion | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 2d | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many of our people | 2d not said here | competent property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | judge | to-infinitive | many of our people not said here | whether my representations of Dakota customs and life and traditions | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | superstitions | correct property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | read | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | the reading public of the North | time | intelligent, west property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | discriminate | gerund | the reading public of the North not said here | as that of any other portion of our country | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | represent | my | Dakota customs and life and traditions | nom representation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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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