Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 35
All below is burnished copper, All above is burnished silver Gemmed with amethyst and agates.
What happens: burnish, gem · To what, where: burnished copper
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 copper | det |
| 2 | below | below | ADV | _ | 4 burnished | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 burnished | aux:pass |
| 4 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 copper | amod |
| 5 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Gemmed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 copper | punct |
| 7 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 silver | det |
| 8 | above | above | ADV | _ | 7 All | amod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 burnished | aux:pass |
| 10 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 silver | amod |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Gemmed | nsubj |
| 12 | Gemmed | gem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 amethyst | case |
| 14 | amethyst | amethyst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Gemmed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 agates | cc |
| 16 | agates | agate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 amethyst | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Gemmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnish | present · passive | below property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | burnish | present · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | gem | participle · passive | all burnished copper | with amethyst and agates; all burnished silver nsubj | 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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