Legends of the Northwest, A Legend of the Dakotas., sentence 1
(In pronouncing Dakota words give "a" the sound of "ah"--"e" the sound of "a"--"i" the sound of "e" and "u" the sound of "oo," sound "ee" as in English.
Who acts: pronouncing Dakota words · What happens: pronounce, give · To what, where: sound
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, A Legend of the Dakotas.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pronouncing Dakota words), 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 | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 3 | pronouncing | pronounce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 words | amod |
| 4 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 words | compound |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | nsubj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sound | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sound | det |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sound | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sound | det |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ah | case |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ah | punct |
| 14 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 11 sound | nmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ah | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 e | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 e | punct |
| 18 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 e | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sound | det |
| 21 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 i | case |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 i | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 i | det |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 a | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 i | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 i | punct |
| 28 | i | i | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sound | nmod |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 i | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sound | det |
| 31 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 i | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 e | case |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 e | punct |
| 34 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sound | nmod |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 e | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 u | cc |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 u | punct |
| 38 | u | u | NOUN | _ | 34 e | conj |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 u | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sound | det |
| 41 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 e | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 oo | case |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 oo | punct |
| 44 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sound | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 sound | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 sound | punct |
| 47 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sound | conj |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 ee | punct |
| 49 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 sound | appos |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 ee | punct |
| 51 | as | as | ADP | _ | 53 English | case |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 English | case |
| 53 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 sound | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | gerund | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | give | present | pronouncing Dakota words | a sound | e obj | 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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