Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 10
In this the babe is placed, and the mother carries it on her back.
Who acts: mother · What happens: place, carry · To what, where: babe, back
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 babe | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 babe | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 babe | det |
| 4 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | aux:pass |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carries | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carries | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carries | nsubj |
| 11 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carries | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carries | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | present · passive | this babe | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in babe=Destination | |||||
| 2 | carry | present | the mother | babe | mother's back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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