Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 76
By beginning each line with a _short_ syllable instead of a long one.
What happens: begin · To what, where: 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: 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 beginning | mark |
| 2 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 line | det |
| 4 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beginning | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 _ | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 _ | det |
| 7 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beginning | obl |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 syllable | amod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 short | punct |
| 10 | syllable | syllable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beginning | obj |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 15 one | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 instead | fixed |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beginning | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | gerund | each line | with a _; instead a long one; short syllable obj | tree rules |
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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