Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 86
Surely the same Hexameter can be written as smoothly and more vigorously without rhyme.
What happens: write · To what, where: same Hexameter
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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 7 written | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Hexameter | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Hexameter | amod |
| 4 | Hexameter | hexameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 written | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 written | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 written | aux:pass |
| 7 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 smoothly | case |
| 9 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 7 written | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 vigorously | cc |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 vigorously | advmod |
| 12 | vigorously | vigorously | ADV | _ | 7 written | conj |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 rhyme | case |
| 14 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vigorously | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | can · passive | the same Hexameter | surely property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Result as smoothly=Attribute |
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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