Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 38
[Footnote 1019: Se-gún is Spring or Summer.
What happens: be · To what, where: gún Spring, 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 | root | root |
| 3 | 1019 | 1019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Spring | punct |
| 5 | Se | se | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gún | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Se | punct |
| 7 | gún | gún | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Spring | compound |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Spring | cop |
| 9 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 Summer | cc |
| 11 | Summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Spring | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | gún Spring or Summer | 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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