Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 49
[Footnote 1024: The Ne-be-naw-baigs, are Water-spirits; they dwell in caverns in the depths of the lake, and in some respects resemble the Unktéhees of the Dakotas.]
Who acts: Ne, Footnote, respects · What happens: be, dwell, resemble · To what, where: naw baigs, Water spirits, caverns, Unktéhees, 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 (Ne, Footnote, respects), 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 | 1024 | 1024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 baigs | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 baigs | det |
| 6 | Ne | Ne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 baigs | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ne | punct |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 baigs | cop |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 naw | punct |
| 10 | naw | naw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 baigs | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 naw | punct |
| 12 | baigs | baig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Footnote | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spirits | punct |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 spirits | cop |
| 15 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 spirits | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Water | punct |
| 17 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 baigs | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 dwell | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dwell | nsubj |
| 20 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Footnote | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 caverns | case |
| 22 | caverns | cavern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dwell | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 depths | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 depths | det |
| 25 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 caverns | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 lake | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lake | det |
| 28 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 depths | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 resemble | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 resemble | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 respects | case |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 respects | det |
| 33 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 resemble | nsubj |
| 34 | resemble | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dwell | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Unktéhees | det |
| 36 | Unktéhees | Unktéhees | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 resemble | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Dakotas | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Dakotas | det |
| 39 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 Unktéhees | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 41 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | Ne | the naw baigs and Water spirits | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Ne not said here | Water spirits | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dwell | present | Footnote | caverns in the depths of the lake | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cavern=Location | ||||
| 4 | resemble | present | some respects | the Unktéhees of the Dakotas | 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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