Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 48
It is the earliestblooming wild-flower on the shores of Lake Superior, and belongs to the crocus family.]
Who acts: Miscodeed · What happens: earliestbloom, be, belong · To what, where: earliestblooming wild flower, shores
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 (Miscodeed), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flower | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 flower | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flower | det |
| 4 | earliestblooming | earliestbloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 flower | amod |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flower | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wild | punct |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 shores | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shores | det |
| 10 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flower | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Lake | case |
| 12 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 shores | nmod |
| 13 | Superior | Superior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lake | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 belongs | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 belongs | cc |
| 16 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 flower | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 family | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 family | det |
| 19 | crocus | crocus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 family | compound |
| 20 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 belongs | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flower | punct |
| 22 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 flower | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earliestbloom | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Miscodeed | the earliestblooming wild flower | the shores of Lake | tree rules | |||
| 3 | belong | present | Miscodeed not said here | to the crocus family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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