Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 21
[Footnote 1011: Algónkin is the general name applied to all tribes that speak the Ojibway language or dialects of it.]
Who acts: Algónkin, tribes · What happens: be, apply, speak · To what, where: general name, Ojibway language, 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: who acts (Algónkin, tribes), 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 | 1011 | 1011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 name | punct |
| 5 | Algónkin | Algónkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 name | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 8 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 name | amod |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | conj |
| 10 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 name | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 tribes | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 tribes | det |
| 13 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 applied | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 speak | nsubj |
| 15 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tribes | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 language | det |
| 17 | Ojibway | Ojibway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 language | compound |
| 18 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 speak | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 dialects | cc |
| 20 | dialects | dialect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 language | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dialects | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 24 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Algónkin | the general name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | apply | participle | the general name not said here | to all tribes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | all tribes | the Ojibway language or dialects of name | 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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