Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 6
White Fisher was the name of a noted Chippewa Chief who lived on the south shore of Lake Superior many years ago.
Who acts: White Fisher, name · What happens: be, note, live · To what, where: name, south shore
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 (White Fisher, name), 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 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Fisher | amod |
| 2 | Fisher | Fisher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Chief | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Chief | det |
| 8 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Chief | amod |
| 9 | Chippewa | Chippewa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Chief | compound |
| 10 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shore | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shore | det |
| 15 | south | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shore | amod |
| 16 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Lake | case |
| 18 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 shore | nmod |
| 19 | Superior | Superior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Lake | flat |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 years | amod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 lived | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | White Fisher | the name | of a noted Chippewa Chief | tree rules | |||
| 2 | note | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | live | past | the name | the south shore of Lake | ago property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
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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