Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 46
[Footnote 1022: The Bridge of Stars spans the vast sea of the skies, and the sun and moon walk over on it.]
Who acts: Bridge, sun · What happens: span, walk over · To what, where: vast sea, Bridge, 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: who acts (Bridge, sun), 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 | 1022 | 1022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 spans | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bridge | det |
| 6 | Bridge | Bridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 spans | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Stars | case |
| 8 | Stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Bridge | nmod |
| 9 | spans | span | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Footnote | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 11 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sea | amod |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spans | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 skies | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 skies | det |
| 15 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sea | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 walk | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 walk | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sun | det |
| 19 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walk | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 moon | cc |
| 21 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sun | conj |
| 22 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 spans | conj |
| 23 | over | over | ADV | _ | 22 walk | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 walk | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 27 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | span | present | the Bridge of Stars | the vast sea of the skies | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk over | present | the sun and moon | Bridge | over property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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