Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 81
I have increased the average number of syllables in the line to better adapt it to our super-abundance of short syllables.
Who acts: I · What happens: increase, adapt · To what, where: average number, line, number, super abundance
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 increased | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 increased | aux |
| 3 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 5 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 number | amod |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increased | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 syllables | case |
| 8 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 number | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 line | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 line | det |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increased | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 adapt | case |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 adapt | amod |
| 14 | adapt | adapt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 increased | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 adapt | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 abundance | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 abundance | nmod:poss |
| 18 | super | super | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 abundance | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 super | punct |
| 20 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 adapt | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 syllables | case |
| 22 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 syllables | amod |
| 23 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 abundance | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | present · perfect | I | the average number of syllables | the line | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer number=Patient | |||
| 2 | adapt | infinitive | number | to our super abundance of short syllables goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to abundance=Goal |
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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