Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 40
The English language, I am inclined to think, is not susceptible of this melody, and my reasons are these: First, the polysyllables in Latin and Greek are finely diversified by long and short syllables, a circumstance that qualifies them for the melody of Hexameter verse: ours are extremely ill qualified for that service, because they super-abound in short syllables.
Who acts: English language, long syllables, circumstance, ours, language · What happens: incline, think, not be, diversify, qualify, be · To what, where: I, polysyllables, language, short syllables
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 (English language, long syllables, circumstance, ours), 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 | 3 language | det |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 language | amod |
| 3 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 susceptible | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 language | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 inclined | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 inclined | aux:pass |
| 7 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 language | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 think | mark |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 inclined | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 language | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 susceptible | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 susceptible | advmod |
| 13 | susceptible | susceptible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 melody | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 melody | det |
| 16 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 susceptible | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 these | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 these | cc |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 reasons | nmod:poss |
| 20 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 these | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 these | cop |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 susceptible | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 diversified | punct |
| 24 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 diversified | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 First | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 polysyllables | det |
| 27 | polysyllables | polysyllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 diversified | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Latin | case |
| 29 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 polysyllables | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Greek | cc |
| 31 | Greek | Greek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Latin | conj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 diversified | aux:pass |
| 33 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 34 diversified | advmod |
| 34 | diversified | diversify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 susceptible | conj |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 syllables | case |
| 36 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 syllables | amod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 short | cc |
| 38 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 long | conj |
| 39 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 diversified | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 circumstance | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 circumstance | det |
| 42 | circumstance | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 syllables | appos |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 qualifies | nsubj |
| 44 | qualifies | qualify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 circumstance | acl:relcl |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 qualifies | obj |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 melody | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 melody | det |
| 48 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 qualifies | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 verse | case |
| 50 | Hexameter | hexameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 verse | compound |
| 51 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 melody | nmod |
| 52 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 57 qualified | punct |
| 53 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 qualified | nsubj |
| 54 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 57 qualified | cop |
| 55 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 57 qualified | advmod |
| 56 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 qualified | amod |
| 57 | qualified | qualified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 diversified | conj |
| 58 | for | for | ADP | _ | 60 service | case |
| 59 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 60 service | det |
| 60 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 qualified | obl |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 abound | punct |
| 62 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 66 abound | mark |
| 63 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 66 abound | nsubj |
| 64 | super | super | ADV | _ | 66 abound | advmod |
| 65 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 64 super | punct |
| 66 | abound | abound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 diversified | conj |
| 67 | in | in | ADP | _ | 69 syllables | case |
| 68 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 69 syllables | amod |
| 69 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 66 abound | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 susceptible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incline | present · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is | present | the English language | of this melody; susceptible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | diversify | present · passive | long syllables | the polysyllables in Latin and Greek | finely, first property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | qualify | present | a circumstance | language | for the melody of Hexameter verse | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is | present | ours | for that service; extremely, qualified property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | abound | infinitive | language | short syllables | super property | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in syllable=Location |
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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