Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 66
More than two short syllables can never be found together, nor _fewer_ than two.
What happens: not find · To what, where: two short syllables
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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 two | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 More | fixed |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 syllables | nummod |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 syllables | amod |
| 5 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 found | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 found | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 found | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fewer | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 fewer | cc |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 fewer | punct |
| 14 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 found | parataxis |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 fewer | punct |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 two | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 _ | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | can · passive | two short syllables | together property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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