Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 85
The Ojibways call it Waub-ó-nong--the white land or land of light, and they have many myths, legends and traditions relating thereto.
Who acts: Ojibways, traditions · What happens: call, have, relate · To what, where: sun., many myths · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Ojibways, traditions), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ojibways | det |
| 2 | Ojibways | ojibway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | Waub | Waub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nong | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Waub | punct |
| 7 | ó | ó | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nong | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ó | punct |
| 9 | nong | nong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | xcomp |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 land | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 land | det |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 land | amod |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nong | appos |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 land | cc |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 land | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 light | case |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 land | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | conj |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 myths | amod |
| 23 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 legends | punct |
| 25 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 myths | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 traditions | cc |
| 27 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 myths | conj |
| 28 | relating | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 traditions | acl |
| 29 | thereto | thereto | ADV | _ | 28 relating | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | the Ojibways | sun. | Waub ó nong xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | present | Ojibways = ojibway | many myths and legends and traditions | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | relate | gerund | traditions not said here | thereto property | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=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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