Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 9
[Footnote 106: The Te-ke-nâh-gun is a board upon one side of which a sort of basket is fastened or woven with thongs of skin or strips of cloth.
Who acts: Te nâh gun · What happens: be, fasten, weave, sort · To what, where: board, sort, Footnote, basket
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 (Te nâh gun), 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 | 106 | 106 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 board | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gun | det |
| 6 | Te | te | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gun | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Te | punct |
| 8 | ke | ke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Te | conj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 nâh | punct |
| 10 | nâh | nâh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gun | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 nâh | punct |
| 12 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 board | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 board | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 board | det |
| 15 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 side | nummod |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 board | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 fastened | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sort | det |
| 22 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 basket | case |
| 24 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sort | nmod |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fastened | aux:pass |
| 26 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 side | acl:relcl |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 woven | cc |
| 28 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 fastened | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 thongs | case |
| 30 | thongs | thong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 woven | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 skin | case |
| 32 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thongs | nmod |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 strips | cc |
| 34 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 skin | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 cloth | case |
| 36 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 strips | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Te nâh gun | a board | upon one side | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fasten | present · passive | a sort of basket | of one side | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | weave | participle | with thongs of skin or strips of cloth | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sort | basket | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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