Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 36
In _Winona_ I have "tried my hand" on Hexameter verse.
What happens: try · To what, where: hand, _
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior.. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 _ | case |
| 2 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tried | obl |
| 3 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 _ | flat |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 _ | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tried | aux |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tried | punct |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tried | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hand | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 verse | case |
| 13 | Hexameter | hexameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 verse | compound |
| 14 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | present · perfect | my hand | _ | on Hexameter verse | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality |
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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