Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 70

_ One who attempts to write English Hexameter, under the Greek and Latin rules, will speedily be made aware that the English language "super-abounds in short syllables."

Who acts: English language · What happens: attempt, write, make, abound · To what, where: English, Greek rules, short syllables, One

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 (English language), 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 One	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 attempts	nsubj
4	attempts	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 One	acl:relcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 write	mark
6	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 attempts	xcomp
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 write	obj
8	Hexameter	Hexameter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 English	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rules	punct
10	under	under	ADP	_	15 rules	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rules	det
12	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rules	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Latin	cc
14	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Greek	conj
15	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 write	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 made	aux
18	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	20 made	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 made	aux:pass
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 One	parataxis
21	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 made	xcomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 language	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 language	det
24	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 language	amod
25	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 aware	obl
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 abounds	punct
27	super	super	ADV	_	29 abounds	advmod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 super	punct
29	abounds	abound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 language	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 syllables	case
31	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 syllables	amod
32	syllables	syllable	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 abounds	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 language	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 language	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attempt	present				who nsubj	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	write not said to happen	to-infinitive		English	the Greek rules		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Theme
3	make	future · passive				aware, speedily property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
4	abound in a quote	present	the English language not said here		short syllables	super property	vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in syllable=Location

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 70

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 70