Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 4
In the days of my Grandfather" is the Ojibway's preface to all his traditions and legends.]
What happens: be · To what, where: preface
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 preface | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Grandfather | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 days | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 preface | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ojibway | det |
| 10 | Ojibway | Ojibway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 preface | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Ojibway | case |
| 12 | preface | preface | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 traditions | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 traditions | det:predet |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 traditions | nmod:poss |
| 16 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 preface | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 legends | cc |
| 18 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 traditions | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 preface | punct |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 preface | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the Ojibway's preface | day | to Shómis's traditions and legends; the Ojibway nmod:poss | 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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