Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 87
Rhyme adds greatly to the labor of composition; it rarely assists, but often hinders, the expression of the sense which the author would convey.
Who acts: Rhyme, author · What happens: add, assist, hinder, convey · To what, where: expression, sense
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 (Rhyme, author), 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 | Rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 adds | nsubj |
| 2 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 2 adds | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 labor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 labor | det |
| 6 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 adds | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 composition | case |
| 8 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 labor | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 assists | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 assists | nsubj |
| 11 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 12 assists | advmod |
| 12 | assists | assist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 adds | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hinders | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 hinders | cc |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 hinders | advmod |
| 16 | hinders | hinder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 assists | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 expression | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 expression | det |
| 19 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hinders | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sense | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sense | det |
| 22 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 expression | nmod |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 convey | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 author | det |
| 25 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 convey | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 convey | aux |
| 27 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sense | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 adds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present | Rhyme | to the labor of composition; greatly property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to labor=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | assist | present | rhyme | rarely property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hinder | present | rhyme not said here | the expression of the sense | often property | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer expression=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | convey | would | the author | the sense | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
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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