Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 44
The pronunciation is easy in a simple movement of alternate long and short syllables; but would be perplexing and unpleasant in the diversified movement of Hexameter verse."
Who acts: pronunciation · What happens: be, perplex, diversify, move · To what, where: simple movement, diversified movement, alternate long syllables, Hexameter verse
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 (pronunciation), 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 | 2 pronunciation | det |
| 2 | pronunciation | pronunciation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 easy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 movement | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 movement | det |
| 7 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 movement | amod |
| 8 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 easy | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 syllables | case |
| 10 | alternate | alternate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 syllables | amod |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 syllables | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 short | cc |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 long | conj |
| 14 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 movement | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 perplexing | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 perplexing | cc |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 perplexing | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 perplexing | aux |
| 19 | perplexing | perplex | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 easy | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 unpleasant | cc |
| 21 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 perplexing | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 movement | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 movement | det |
| 24 | diversified | diversify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 movement | amod |
| 25 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 perplexing | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 verse | case |
| 27 | Hexameter | hexameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 verse | compound |
| 28 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 movement | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 perplexing | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the pronunciation | a simple movement of alternate long syllables | easy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | perplex | would · progressive | the diversified movement of Hexameter verse | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | diversify | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | move | alternate long syllables | nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | move | Hexameter verse | nom movement «act transitive»: of=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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