Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 38

The Earl of Derby, in the preface to his translation of the Iliad, calls it "That pestilent heresy of the so-called English Hexameter; a metre wholly repugnant to the genius of our language; which can only be pressed into the service by a violation of every rule of prosody."

Who acts: Earl, metre, violation, Iliad, prosody · What happens: call, repugnant, press, translate, violate, rule · To what, where: verse, pestilent heresy, service, rule · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Earl, metre, violation, Iliad), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earl	det
2	Earl	Earl	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 calls	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Derby	case
4	Derby	Derby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Earl	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 preface	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 preface	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 preface	det
8	preface	preface	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Earl	appos
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 translation	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 translation	nmod:poss
11	translation	translation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 preface	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Iliad	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Iliad	det
14	Iliad	Iliad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 translation	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Earl	punct
16	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 calls	obj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 heresy	punct
19	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 heresy	det
20	pestilent	pestilent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heresy	amod
21	heresy	heresy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 calls	xcomp
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 called	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 called	det
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 called	advmod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 so	punct
26	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 heresy	acl
27	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 called	xcomp
28	Hexameter	Hexameter	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 English	flat
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 repugnant	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 metre	det
31	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 repugnant	nsubj
32	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	33 repugnant	advmod
33	repugnant	repugnant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 calls	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 genius	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 genius	det
36	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 repugnant	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 language	case
38	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 language	nmod:poss
39	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 genius	nmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 pressed	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 pressed	nsubj:pass
42	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 pressed	aux
43	only	only	ADV	_	45 pressed	advmod
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 pressed	aux:pass
45	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 calls	parataxis
46	into	into	ADP	_	48 service	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 service	det
48	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 pressed	obl
49	by	by	ADP	_	51 violation	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 violation	det
51	violation	violation	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 pressed	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 rule	case
53	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	54 rule	det
54	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 violation	nmod
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 prosody	case
56	prosody	prosody	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 rule	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 calls	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 calls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present	the Earl of Derby	verse		that pestilent heresy xcomp	tree rules
2	call in a quote	participle		that pestilent heresy not said here		English xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	repugnant in a quote		a metre			to the genius of our language; wholly property	tree rules
4	press in a quote	can · passive	a violation of every rule of prosody		the service	which nsubj:pass	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	translate		the Iliad				nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent
6	violate in a quote			every rule of prosody			nom violation «act transitive»: of=patient
7	rule in a quote		prosody				nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 38