Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 92
The reception of my _Pauline_ at home and abroad has been so flattering that I have been encouraged to attempt something better.
Who acts: reception, I · What happens: have, flatter, encourage, attempt, receive · To what, where: I, something, Pauline, home
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 (reception, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reception | det |
| 2 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Pauline | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Pauline | nmod:poss |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pauline | punct |
| 6 | Pauline | Pauline | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reception | nmod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 home | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reception | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 abroad | cc |
| 11 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 9 home | conj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 flattering | aux |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 flattering | advmod |
| 15 | flattering | flatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 has | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 encouraged | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 encouraged | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 encouraged | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 encouraged | aux:pass |
| 20 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 flattering | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 attempt | mark |
| 22 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 encouraged | xcomp |
| 23 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 attempt | obj |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 something | amod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the reception of my Pauline at home | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | flatter | participle · progressive | the reception of my Pauline at home not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | encourage | present · perfect · passive | I | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | attempt not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | something | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | receive | my Pauline | home | nom reception «communication transitive»: of=patient at=place |
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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