Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 17
[Footnote 109: Ka-be-bón-ik-ka is the god of storms, thunder, lightning, etc. His home is on Thunder-Cap at Thunder-Bay, Lake Superior.
Who acts: Ka, home · What happens: be · To what, where: bón, god, Thunder Cap, Footnote
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 (Ka, home), 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 | 109 | 109 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 god | punct |
| 5 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 god | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bón | punct |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bón | cop |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bón | punct |
| 9 | bón | bón | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 god | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ik | punct |
| 11 | ik | ik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 god | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ka | punct |
| 13 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 god | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 god | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 god | det |
| 16 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 storms | case |
| 18 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 god | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thunder | punct |
| 20 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 storms | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lightning | punct |
| 22 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 god | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 etc. | punct |
| 24 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 16 god | conj |
| 25 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 home | nmod:poss |
| 26 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Cap | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 Cap | cop |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 Cap | case |
| 29 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Cap | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Thunder | punct |
| 31 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 god | appos |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 Bay | case |
| 33 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Bay | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Thunder | punct |
| 35 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Cap | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Lake | punct |
| 37 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Cap | conj |
| 38 | Superior | Superior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Lake | flat |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | bón | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Ka | the god and lightning and etc. | of storms and thunder; ik nsubj; lightning conj; etc. conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | Ka's home | Thunder Cap and Lake | at Thunder Bay; Lake conj | 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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