Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 19
He always sends warnings before he finally sends the severe cold of winter, in order to give all creatures time to prepare for it.]
Who acts: giant · What happens: send, give, prepare · To what, where: warnings, severe cold
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 (giant), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sends | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 sends | advmod |
| 3 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sends | obj |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 sends | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sends | nsubj |
| 7 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 8 sends | advmod |
| 8 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sends | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cold | det |
| 10 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cold | amod |
| 11 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sends | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 winter | case |
| 13 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cold | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 give | mark |
| 16 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 in | fixed |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sends | conj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 time | det |
| 20 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 time | compound |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 prepare | mark |
| 23 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 time | acl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 prepare | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sends | punct |
| 27 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 3 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | giant | warnings | always property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | present | giant | the severe cold of winter | finally property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | giant not said here | time | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | prepare | to-infinitive | giant not said here | for order | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary |
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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