Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 41
Secondly, the bulk of our monosyllables are arbitrary with regard to length, which is an unlucky circumstance in Hexameter.
Who acts: bulk, regard · What happens: be · To what, where: unlucky circumstance, Hexameter
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 (bulk, regard), 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 | Secondly | secondly | ADV | _ | 9 arbitrary | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Secondly | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bulk | det |
| 4 | bulk | bulk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arbitrary | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 monosyllables | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 monosyllables | nmod:poss |
| 7 | monosyllables | monosyllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bulk | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 arbitrary | cop |
| 9 | arbitrary | arbitrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 regard | case |
| 11 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arbitrary | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 regard | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 circumstance | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 circumstance | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 circumstance | cop |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 circumstance | det |
| 18 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 circumstance | amod |
| 19 | circumstance | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 regard | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Hexameter | case |
| 21 | Hexameter | Hexameter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 circumstance | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 arbitrary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the bulk of our monosyllables | with regard to length and a unlucky circumstance; arbitrary, secondly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | regard to length and a unlucky circumstance | a unlucky circumstance | Hexameter | tree rules |
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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