Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 45
Beautiful as is the _Evangeline_ of Longfellow, his Hexameter lines are sometimes hard to scan, and often grate harshly on the ear.
Who acts: Hexameter lines · What happens: be, scan, grate
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 (Hexameter lines), 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 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 _ | case |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 Beautiful | fixed |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 _ | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 _ | det |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 _ | punct |
| 6 | Evangeline | Evangeline | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 _ | compound |
| 7 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hard | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Longfellow | case |
| 9 | Longfellow | Longfellow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 _ | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hard | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lines | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Hexameter | hexameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lines | compound |
| 13 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hard | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hard | cop |
| 15 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 hard | advmod |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 scan | mark |
| 18 | scan | scan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hard | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grate | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 grate | cc |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 grate | advmod |
| 22 | grate | grate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hard | conj |
| 23 | harshly | harshly | ADV | _ | 22 grate | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 ear | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ear | det |
| 26 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grate | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | beautiful the Evangeline _; of Longfellow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Longfellow's Hexameter lines | hard, sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | scan | to-infinitive | Longfellow's Hexameter lines not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grate | present | Longfellow's Hexameter lines not said here | on the ear; harshly, often property | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus on ear=Experiencer |
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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