Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 64
The line must always commence with a _long_ syllable, and close with two long preceded by two short.
Who acts: line · What happens: commence, close, precede
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 (line), 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 | 2 line | det |
| 2 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 commence | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 commence | aux |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 commence | advmod |
| 5 | commence | commence | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 syllable | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 syllable | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | punct |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 syllable | amod |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | punct |
| 11 | syllable | syllable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 commence | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 close | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 close | cc |
| 14 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 commence | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 two | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 close | obl |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 close | xcomp |
| 18 | preceded | precede | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 long | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 short | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 short | nummod |
| 21 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 preceded | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 commence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence | must | the line | with a long syllable; always property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with syllable=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | close | present | the line not said here | with two; long property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with two=Theme | ||||
| 3 | precede | participle | by two short | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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