Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 79
By often using one short syllable unaccompanied by another.
What happens: use, unaccompany · To what, where: one short syllable
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 | _ | 3 using | mark |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 using | advmod |
| 3 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 syllable | nummod |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 syllable | amod |
| 6 | syllable | syllable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 using | obj |
| 7 | unaccompanied | unaccompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 syllable | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 another | case |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 unaccompanied | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 using | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | gerund | one short syllable | often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent syllable=Patient | ||||
| 2 | unaccompany | participle | one short syllable not said here | by another | 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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