Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 56
[Footnote 1027: The Jossakeeds of the Ojibways are sooth-sayers who are able, by the aid of spirits, to read the past as well as the future.]
Who acts: Jossakeeds, sooth sayers · What happens: be, read · To what, where: sooth sayers, past, 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 (Jossakeeds, sooth sayers), 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 | 1027 | 1027 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jossakeeds | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Jossakeeds | det |
| 6 | Jossakeeds | jossakeed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sayers | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Ojibways | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Ojibways | det |
| 9 | Ojibways | ojibway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Jossakeeds | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sayers | cop |
| 11 | sooth | sooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sayers | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sayers | punct |
| 13 | sayers | sayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Footnote | conj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 able | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 able | cop |
| 16 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sayers | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 aid | punct |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 aid | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 aid | det |
| 20 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 able | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 spirits | case |
| 22 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 aid | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 read | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 read | mark |
| 25 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 able | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 past | det |
| 27 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 read | obj |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 32 future | cc |
| 29 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 as | fixed |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 as | fixed |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 future | det |
| 32 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 read | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 34 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Jossakeeds of the Ojibways | sooth sayers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | sooth sayers | by the aid of spirits; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | read | to-infinitive | the past | the future conj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent past=Topic |
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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