Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 39
Lord Kames, in his "Elements of Criticism." says, "Many attempts have been made to introduce Hexameter verse into the living languages, but without success.
Who acts: Lord, Many attempts · What happens: say, make, introduce · To what, where: Many attempts, Hexameter verse, living languages · 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 (Lord, Many attempts), 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 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 2 | Kames | Kames | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lord | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Elements | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Elements | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Elements | nmod:poss |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Elements | punct |
| 7 | Elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lord | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Criticism | case |
| 9 | Criticism | Criticism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Elements | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lord | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lord | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 15 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 attempts | amod |
| 16 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 made | aux:pass |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 says | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 introduce | mark |
| 21 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | xcomp |
| 22 | Hexameter | hexameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 verse | compound |
| 23 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 introduce | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 languages | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 languages | det |
| 26 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 languages | compound |
| 27 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 introduce | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 success | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 success | cc |
| 30 | without | without | ADP | _ | 31 success | case |
| 31 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Lord and metre's Elements of Criticism | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Many attempts | without success | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | introduce in a quote | to-infinitive | Many attempts not said here | Hexameter verse | the living languages | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: 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.
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