Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 49
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in gar|ments green, indistinct in the twilight.
What happens: beard · To what, where: murmuring pines
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pines | det |
| 2 | murmuring | murmuring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pines | compound |
| 3 | pines | pine | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hemlocks | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hemlocks | det |
| 6 | hemlocks | hemlock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pines | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bearded | punct |
| 8 | Bearded | beard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pines | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 moss | case |
| 10 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Bearded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gar | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gar | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 gar | case |
| 14 | gar | gar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pines | conj |
| 15 | | | | | PUNCT | _ | 16 ments | punct |
| 16 | ments | ment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gar | conj |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gar | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 indistinct | punct |
| 19 | indistinct | indistinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gar | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 twilight | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 twilight | det |
| 22 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 indistinct | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beard | participle | the murmuring pines and the hemlocks and gar and ments not said here | with moss | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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