Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 42
* * * In Latin and Greek Hexameter invariable sounds direct and ascertain the melody.
What happens: sound, ascertain · To what, where: Latin, melody
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: 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 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 10 sounds | punct |
| 2 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 10 sounds | punct |
| 3 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 10 sounds | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Latin | case |
| 5 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sounds | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 invariable | cc |
| 7 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 invariable | amod |
| 8 | Hexameter | hexameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 invariable | compound |
| 9 | invariable | invariable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Latin | conj |
| 10 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sounds | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ascertain | cc |
| 13 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sounds | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 melody | det |
| 15 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ascertain | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | Latin and Greek Hexameter invariable | direct property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in latin=Location | ||||
| 2 | ascertain | present | the melody | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melody=Topic |
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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