Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 69
These few rules fulfill all the conditions of an Hexameter line with relation to order of arrangement."--_Lord Kames, "Elements of Criticism."
Who acts: few rules · What happens: fulfill, order, condition · To what, where: conditions, Hexameter line
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 (few rules), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 rules | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rules | amod |
| 3 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fulfill | nsubj |
| 4 | fulfill | fulfill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 conditions | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 conditions | det |
| 7 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fulfill | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 line | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 line | det |
| 10 | Hexameter | hexameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 line | compound |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conditions | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 relation | case |
| 13 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 line | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 order | mark |
| 15 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fulfill | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 arrangement | case |
| 17 | arrangement | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 order | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fulfill | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fulfill | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 Kames | punct |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 Kames | punct |
| 22 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Kames | compound |
| 23 | Kames | Kames | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fulfill | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Elements | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Elements | punct |
| 26 | Elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Kames | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Criticism | case |
| 28 | Criticism | Criticism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Elements | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 Kames | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Kames | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfill | present | this few rules | all conditions of a Hexameter line with relation | Lord Kames and Elements of Criticism parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | order | to-infinitive | this few rules not said here | of arrangement | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | condition | a Hexameter line with relation | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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