Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 46
He is frequently forced to divide a word by the central or pivotal pause of the line, and sometimes to make a pause in the sense where the rhythm forbids it.
Who acts: Longfellow, rhythm · What happens: force, divide, make, forbid · To what, where: Longfellow, word, pause, sense
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 (Longfellow, rhythm), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forced | aux:pass |
| 3 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 4 forced | advmod |
| 4 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 divide | mark |
| 6 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forced | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 divide | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 pause | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pause | det |
| 11 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pause | amod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 pivotal | cc |
| 13 | pivotal | pivotal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 central | conj |
| 14 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 divide | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 line | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 line | det |
| 17 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pause | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 20 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 make | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forced | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pause | det |
| 24 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 sense | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sense | det |
| 27 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obl |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 forbids | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rhythm | det |
| 30 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 forbids | nsubj |
| 31 | forbids | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 sense | acl:relcl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 forbids | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | present · passive | Longfellow | frequently property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | divide | to-infinitive | Longfellow not said here | a word | by the central pause of the line | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent word=Theme by pause=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | a pause | the sense | sometimes property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pause=Product | |||
| 4 | forbid | present | the rhythm | pause | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme |
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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