Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 83
In _Winona_ I have introduced a rhyme at the pivotal pause of the line, not because my Hexameter requires it, but because I think it increases the melody, and more emphatically marks the central pause.
Who acts: Hexameter, I, rhyme · What happens: introduce, not require, think, increase, mark · To what, where: I, _, rhyme, melody, central pause · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hexameter, I, rhyme), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 _ | case |
| 2 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 introduced | obl |
| 3 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 _ | flat |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 _ | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 introduced | aux |
| 7 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rhyme | det |
| 9 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 introduced | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 pause | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pause | det |
| 12 | pivotal | pivotal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pause | amod |
| 13 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 introduced | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 line | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 line | det |
| 16 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pause | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 requires | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 requires | advmod |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 requires | mark |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Hexameter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Hexameter | hexameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 requires | nsubj |
| 22 | requires | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 introduced | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 requires | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 think | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 think | cc |
| 26 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 28 think | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 think | nsubj |
| 28 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 requires | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 increases | nsubj |
| 30 | increases | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 think | ccomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 melody | det |
| 32 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 increases | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 marks | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 marks | cc |
| 35 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 emphatically | advmod |
| 36 | emphatically | emphatically | ADV | _ | 37 marks | advmod |
| 37 | marks | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 requires | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 pause | det |
| 39 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 pause | amod |
| 40 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 marks | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 introduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | present · perfect · passive | I | _ | at the pivotal pause of the line; a rhyme obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not require | present | my Hexameter | rhyme | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | increase | present | rhyme | the melody | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer melody=Patient | ||||
| 5 | mark | present | my Hexameter not said here | the central pause | emphatically property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent pause=Destination |
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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