Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 87
[b] The Dakotas like the ancient Romans and Greeks think the home of the winds is in the caverns of the mountains, and their great Thunder bird resembles in many respects the Jupiter of the Romans and the Zeus of the Greeks.
Who acts: Dakotas, home, great Thunder bird, many · What happens: think, be, resemble, respect · To what, where: caverns, Jupiter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dakotas, home, great Thunder bird, many), 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 b | punct |
| 2 | b | b | NUM | _ | 5 Dakotas | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 b | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Dakotas | det |
| 5 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 think | nsubj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 Romans | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Romans | det |
| 8 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Romans | amod |
| 9 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 Dakotas | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Greeks | cc |
| 11 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Romans | conj |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 home | det |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caverns | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 winds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 winds | det |
| 17 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 home | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 caverns | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 caverns | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 caverns | det |
| 21 | caverns | cavern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 think | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 mountains | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mountains | det |
| 24 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 caverns | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 resembles | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 resembles | cc |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bird | nmod:poss |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bird | amod |
| 29 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 bird | compound |
| 30 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 resembles | nsubj |
| 31 | resembles | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 think | parataxis |
| 32 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 34 respects | mark |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 respects | nsubj |
| 34 | respects | respect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 resembles | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Jupiter | det |
| 36 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 respects | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Romans | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Romans | det |
| 39 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 36 Jupiter | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Zeus | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Zeus | det |
| 42 | Zeus | Zeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Romans | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Greeks | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Greeks | det |
| 45 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 42 Zeus | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | the Dakotas like the ancient Romans and Greeks | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the home of the winds | the caverns | of the mountains | tree rules | |||
| 3 | resemble | present | Dakotas's great Thunder bird | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | respect | present | many | the Jupiter of the Romans and the Zeus of the Greeks | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jupiter=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/87/