Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 53

Again, in order to comply with the Greek and Latin rule of beginning each line with a _long_ syllable, he is compelled to emphasize words contrary to the sense.

Who acts: Greek rule · What happens: comply, begin, compel, emphasize · To what, where: line, discon, words

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 (Greek rule), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	6 comply	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Again	punct
3	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 comply	mark
4	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 in	fixed
5	to	to	PART	_	6 comply	mark
6	comply	comply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	12 rule	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rule	det
9	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rule	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Latin	cc
11	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Greek	conj
12	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comply	obl
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 beginning	mark
14	beginning	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 rule	acl
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 line	det
16	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beginning	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	22 syllable	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 syllable	det
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 syllable	amod
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
22	syllable	syllable	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beginning	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 compelled	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 compelled	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 compelled	aux:pass
26	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 comply	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 emphasize	mark
28	emphasize	emphasize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 compelled	xcomp
29	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 emphasize	obj
30	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 emphasize	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 sense	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sense	det
33	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 contrary	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 comply	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	comply	to-infinitive			again	with the Greek rule	tree rules
2	begin	gerund	the Greek rule not said here	each line		with a long syllable	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent line=Eventuality with syllable=Subeventuality
3	compel	present · passive		discon			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	emphasize	to-infinitive		words		contrary property	vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 53