Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 55
The "Dark River" seems to have been a part of the superstition of all nations.]
Who acts: Dark River · What happens: seem, be · To what, where: part
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 (Dark River), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 River | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 River | punct |
| 3 | Dark | Dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 River | compound |
| 4 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seems | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 River | punct |
| 6 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 part | mark |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 part | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 part | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seems | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 superstition | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 superstition | det |
| 14 | superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 nations | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 nations | det |
| 17 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 superstition | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seems | punct |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 6 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | the Dark River | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | the Dark River not said here | a part | of the superstition of all nations | 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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