Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 24
The fox belongs to the _canis_, or dog family and not the _felis_, or cat family.
Who acts: fox · What happens: belong
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belongs | nsubj |
| 3 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 canis | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 canis | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 canis | punct |
| 7 | canis | canis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belongs | obl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 canis | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 family | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 family | cc |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 family | compound |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belongs | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 felis | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 felis | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 felis | det |
| 16 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 felis | amod |
| 17 | felis | felis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 family | conj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 family | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 family | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 family | cc |
| 21 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 family | compound |
| 22 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belongs | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 belongs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | the fox | to the canis; dog family and the _ felis parataxis; cat family conj | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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