Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 77
And it will be seen that I often begin a line with two short syllables.
Who acts: I · What happens: see, begin · To what, where: Four, 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 (I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seen | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 begin | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 begin | nsubj |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 begin | advmod |
| 9 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 line | det |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begin | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 syllables | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 syllables | nummod |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 syllables | amod |
| 15 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 begin | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future · passive | Four | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | begin | present | I | a line | with two short syllables; often property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent line=Eventuality with syllable=Subeventuality |
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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