Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 89
It will be observed that I have slightly changed the length and the rhythm of the old Hexameter line, but it is still Hexameter, and, I think, improved.
Who acts: I, point · What happens: observe, change, be, think, improve · To what, where: point, length, Hexameter · 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 (I, point), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 observed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 observed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 observed | aux:pass |
| 4 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 changed | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 changed | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 changed | aux |
| 8 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 9 changed | advmod |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 observed | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 length | det |
| 11 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rhythm | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rhythm | det |
| 14 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 length | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 line | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 line | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 line | amod |
| 18 | Hexameter | hexameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 line | compound |
| 19 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rhythm | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Hexameter | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 Hexameter | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 Hexameter | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 Hexameter | cop |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 Hexameter | advmod |
| 25 | Hexameter | Hexameter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 think | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 think | cc |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 and | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 think | nsubj |
| 30 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 observed | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 improved | punct |
| 32 | improved | improve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 think | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | future · passive | point | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | change | present · perfect | I | the length and the rhythm of the old Hexameter line | slightly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent length=Patient | |||
| 3 | is a | present | point | Hexameter | still | tree rules | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | improve | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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