Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 97
If these _Legends_ be appreciated and approved by our own people who are familiar with the scenery described and more or less, with the customs, traditions and superstitions of the Dakotas, and if beyond that these poems shall stand the test of candid criticism I may give them a wider publication.
Who acts: own people, scenery, poems, I · What happens: appreciate, approve, be, describe, stand, give · To what, where: Legends, test, wider publication, candid criticism
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 (own people, scenery, poems, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 appreciated | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 Legends | det |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Legends | punct |
| 4 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appreciated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 appreciated | punct |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 appreciated | aux:pass |
| 7 | appreciated | appreciate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 give | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 approved | cc |
| 9 | approved | approve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 appreciated | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 people | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appreciated | obl:agent |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 familiar | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 familiar | cop |
| 16 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | acl:relcl |
| 17 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 described | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 scenery | det |
| 19 | scenery | scenery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 described | nsubj |
| 20 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 familiar | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 more | cc |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 described | advmod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 less | cc |
| 24 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 more | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 customs | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 customs | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 customs | det |
| 28 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appreciated | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 traditions | punct |
| 30 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 customs | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 superstitions | cc |
| 32 | superstitions | superstition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 customs | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Dakotas | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Dakotas | det |
| 35 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 superstitions | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 give | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 give | cc |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 stand | mark |
| 39 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 44 stand | mark |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 stand | mark |
| 41 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 42 poems | det |
| 42 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 stand | nsubj |
| 43 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 stand | aux |
| 44 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 give | csubj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 test | det |
| 46 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 stand | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 criticism | case |
| 48 | candid | candid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 criticism | amod |
| 49 | criticism | criticism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 test | nmod |
| 50 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 give | nsubj |
| 51 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 give | aux |
| 52 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 53 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 give | iobj |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 publication | det |
| 55 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 56 publication | amod |
| 56 | publication | publication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 give | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 52 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appreciate a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · passive | our own people | this Legends | with the customs and traditions and superstitions of the Dakotas | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | approve | participle | our own people not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | our own people | familiar property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | describe | past | the scenery | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | stand a condition, not said to happen | shall | this poems | the test of candid criticism | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer test=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | give | may | I | a wider publication | Legends = legend | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient publication=Theme | |||
| 7 | test | candid criticism | nom test «cognition transitive»: 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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