Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 52
Net-nó-kwa, who adopted Tanner as her son, was Oge-mâ-kwa of a band of Ottawas.
Who acts: Net nó kwa · What happens: adopt, be · To what, where: Tanner, Oge mâ kwa
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 (Net nó kwa), 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 | Net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kwa | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Net | punct |
| 3 | nó | nó | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kwa | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 kwa | punct |
| 5 | kwa | kwa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kwa | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 adopted | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 adopted | nsubj |
| 8 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kwa | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Tanner | Tanner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 adopted | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 adopted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kwa | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 kwa | cop |
| 15 | Oge | Oge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 kwa | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Oge | punct |
| 17 | mâ | mâ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kwa | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 mâ | punct |
| 19 | kwa | kwa | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 band | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 band | det |
| 22 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kwa | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Ottawas | case |
| 24 | Ottawas | ottawa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 band | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 kwa | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | past | Net nó kwa | Tanner | as Tanner's son | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tanner=Theme as son=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Net nó kwa | Oge mâ kwa | of a band of Ottawas | 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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