Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 128
[Footnote 35: The Crees are the Knisteneaux of Alexander Mackenzie.
What happens: be · To what, where: Crees Knisteneaux, Footnote
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Knisteneaux | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Crees | det |
| 6 | Crees | Cree | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Knisteneaux | compound |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Knisteneaux | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Knisteneaux | det |
| 9 | Knisteneaux | Knisteneaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Alexander | case |
| 11 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Knisteneaux | nmod |
| 12 | Mackenzie | Mackenzie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Alexander | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Crees Knisteneaux | of Alexander | tree rules |
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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