Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 51
Old and wrinkled was the Sea-Gull, Good and true, but old and wrinkled.
Who acts: Sea Gull · What happens: wrinkle, be
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea Gull), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Good | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 wrinkled | cc |
| 3 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Old | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Good | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Gull | det |
| 6 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Gull | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sea | punct |
| 8 | Gull | Gull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Good | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Good | punct |
| 10 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 true | cc |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Good | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 old | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 old | cc |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Good | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wrinkled | cc |
| 17 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 old | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrinkle | participle | the Sea Gull not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Sea Gull | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the Sea Gull not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | the Sea Gull not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | wrinkle | participle | the Sea Gull not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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