Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 37
[Footnote 1018: Pé-boân, Winter, is represented as an old man with long white hair and beard.]
What happens: represent · To what, where: 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: 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 | 12 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | 1018 | 1018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 boân | punct |
| 5 | Pé | Pé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 boân | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Pé | punct |
| 7 | boân | boân | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Winter | punct |
| 9 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 boân | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 represented | aux:pass |
| 12 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 represented | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hair | case |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hair | amod |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hair | amod |
| 20 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beard | cc |
| 22 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hair | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 represented | punct |
| 24 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present · passive | Footnote and Pé boân | as a old man with long white hair and beard | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as man=Attribute |
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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