Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 37
With what success, I leave to those who are better able to judge than I. If I have failed, I have but added another failure to the numerous vain attempts to naturalize Hexameter verse in the English language.
Who acts: I · What happens: leave, be, judge, fail, have, add · To what, where: those, failure, Hexameter verse, English language
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: who acts (I), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 success | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 success | nsubj |
| 3 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 success | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 those | case |
| 8 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 leave | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 able | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 able | cop |
| 11 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 able | advmod |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 those | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 judge | mark |
| 14 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 I. | case |
| 16 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 judge | obl |
| 17 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 failed | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 failed | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 failed | aux |
| 20 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 have | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 failed | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 judge | conj |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 added | cc |
| 25 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 leave | conj |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 failure | det |
| 27 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 added | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 attempts | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 attempts | det |
| 30 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 attempts | amod |
| 31 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 attempts | amod |
| 32 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 added | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 naturalize | mark |
| 34 | naturalize | naturalize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 added | advcl |
| 35 | Hexameter | hexameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 verse | compound |
| 36 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 naturalize | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 language | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 language | det |
| 39 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 language | amod |
| 40 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 naturalize | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | I | those | with success | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to that=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | who nsubj; able, well property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | judge | to-infinitive | than I. | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | I | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | add speech: assert | participle | I not said here | another failure | to the numerous vain attempts | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent failure=Patient to attempt=Co-Patient | |||
| 7 | naturalize | to-infinitive | I not said here | Hexameter verse | the English language | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent verse=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/2/37/