Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 2
[Footnote 102: Gitchee--great,--Gumee--sea or lake,--Lake Superior; also often called Ochipwè Gítchee Gúmee, Great Lake (or sea) of the Ojibways.]
What happens: call · To what, where: Footnote · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | 102 | 102 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Gitchee | punct |
| 5 | Gitchee | Gitchee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 great | punct |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Gitchee | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Gumee | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 Gumee | punct |
| 10 | Gumee | Gumee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gitchee | appos |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 sea | punct |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Gumee | appos |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 lake | cc |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sea | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Gumee | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lake | punct |
| 17 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gitchee | conj |
| 18 | Superior | Superior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Lake | flat |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 called | advmod |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 called | advmod |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Footnote | acl |
| 23 | Ochipwè | Ochipwè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 24 | Gítchee | Gítchee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ochipwè | flat |
| 25 | Gúmee | Gúmee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ochipwè | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Lake | punct |
| 27 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Lake | amod |
| 28 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | conj |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 sea | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 sea | cc |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Lake | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 sea | punct |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Ojibways | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Ojibways | det |
| 35 | Ojibways | Ojibway | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 Lake | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 37 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Footnote not said here | Ochipwè xcomp; Great Lake of the Ojibways conj; often property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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