Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 59

"Greek and Latin Hexameter lines, as to time, are all of the same length, being equivalent to the time taken in pronouncing twelve long syllables, or twenty-four short ones.

What happens: be, take, pronounce · To what, where: same length, twelve long syllables, all

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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Greek	punct
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lines	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Latin	cc
4	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Greek	conj
5	Hexameter	hexameter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lines	compound
6	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 all	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct
8	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 time	case
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 as	fixed
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lines	list
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lines	punct
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 all	cop
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 length	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 length	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 length	amod
17	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 all	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 equivalent	punct
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 equivalent	cop
20	equivalent	equivalent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 length	amod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 equivalent	obl
24	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 length	acl
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 pronouncing	mark
26	pronouncing	pronounce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 taken	advcl
27	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 syllables	nummod
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 syllables	amod
29	syllables	syllable	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pronouncing	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ones	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 ones	cc
32	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 ones	nummod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 twenty	punct
34	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 twenty	conj
35	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ones	amod
36	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 syllables	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	gerund		time	equivalent property	tree rules
2	take in a quote	participle	the same length not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	pronounce in a quote	gerund	twelve long syllables or twenty short ones			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent syllable=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 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 59