Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 45
Waubúnong--or Waub-ó-nong--is the White Land or Land of Light,--the Sun-rise, the East.]
Who acts: Waubúnong · What happens: be · To what, where: White Land
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 (Waubúnong), 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 | Waubúnong | Waubúnong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Land | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 nong | punct |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 nong | cc |
| 4 | Waub | Waub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 nong | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Waub | punct |
| 6 | ó | ó | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nong | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ó | punct |
| 8 | nong | nong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Waubúnong | appos |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Waubúnong | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Land | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Land | det |
| 12 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Land | amod |
| 13 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 Land | cc |
| 15 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Land | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Light | case |
| 17 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Land | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rise | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 rise | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rise | det |
| 21 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 rise | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sun | punct |
| 23 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Land | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 East | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 East | det |
| 26 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 rise | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 rise | punct |
| 28 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 23 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Waubúnong | the White Land or Land of Light | Land of Light conj; the Sun rise parataxis | 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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