Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 43
English Hexameter would be destitute of melody, unless by artful pronunciation; because of necessity the bulk of its sounds must be arbitrary.
Who acts: English, bulk · What happens: be
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, bulk), 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 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 destitute | nsubj |
| 2 | Hexameter | Hexameter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 English | flat |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 destitute | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 destitute | cop |
| 5 | destitute | destitute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 melody | case |
| 7 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 destitute | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pronunciation | punct |
| 9 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 12 pronunciation | case |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 pronunciation | case |
| 11 | artful | artful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pronunciation | amod |
| 12 | pronunciation | pronunciation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 destitute | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 arbitrary | punct |
| 14 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 16 necessity | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 because | fixed |
| 16 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arbitrary | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bulk | det |
| 18 | bulk | bulk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arbitrary | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sounds | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sounds | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bulk | nmod |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 arbitrary | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 arbitrary | cop |
| 24 | arbitrary | arbitrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 destitute | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 destitute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | English | of melody; artful pronunciation parataxis; destitute property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | must | the bulk of bulk's sounds | because necessity; arbitrary property | 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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