Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 56
_But_ a celestial bright|ness--a more etherial beauty.
Who acts: _ · What happens: _ · To what, where: celestial
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 (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 _ | nsubj |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 _ | cc |
| 3 | _ | _ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 celestial | det |
| 5 | celestial | celestial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 _ | obj |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ness | amod |
| 7 | | | | | PUNCT | _ | 8 ness | punct |
| 8 | ness | ness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 celestial | conj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 beauty | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 beauty | det |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 etherial | advmod |
| 12 | etherial | etherial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beauty | amod |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 celestial | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 _ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | past | _ | a celestial and bright ness and a etherial beauty | tree rules |
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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