Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 68
Two long syllables which have been preceded by two short can not also be followed by two short.
What happens: precede, not follow · To what, where: Two long 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 syllables | nummod |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 syllables | amod |
| 3 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 preceded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 preceded | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 preceded | aux:pass |
| 7 | preceded | precede | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 syllables | acl:relcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 short | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 short | nummod |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 preceded | obl |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 followed | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 followed | advmod |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 followed | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 followed | aux:pass |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 short | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 short | nummod |
| 18 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 followed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | precede | present · perfect · passive | Two long syllables | by two short | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | not follow | can · passive | Two long syllables | by two short | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by short=Trajectory |
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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