Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 41
I have compared it with Schoolcraft's version, from which Mr. Longfellow evidently took his.]
Who acts: Mr. · What happens: compare, take · To what, where: I, Schoolcraft
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 (Mr.), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 compared | aux |
| 3 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 compared | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 version | case |
| 6 | Schoolcraft | Schoolcraft | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 version | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Schoolcraft | case |
| 8 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 compared | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 took | obl |
| 12 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 13 | Longfellow | Longfellow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mr. | flat |
| 14 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 compared | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 compared | punct |
| 18 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 3 compared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present · perfect · passive | I | with Schoolcraft's version | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Mr. | Schoolcraft | which obl; evidently property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent his=Theme from which=Initial_Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/23/41/