Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 5
[Footnote 104: Waub--white---O-jeeg,--fisher, (a furred animal.)
What happens: fur · To what, where: 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: 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 | 104 | 104 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Waub | punct |
| 5 | Waub | Waub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 white | punct |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Waub | amod |
| 8 | --- | --- | PUNCT | _ | 7 white | punct |
| 9 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 11 jeeg | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 O | punct |
| 11 | jeeg | jeeg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 white | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fisher | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 fisher | punct |
| 14 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 animal | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 animal | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 animal | det |
| 18 | furred | fur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 animal | amod |
| 19 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fur | participle | 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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