Legends of the Northwest, The Sea-gull, the Ojibwa Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior., sentence 93
That was my first real effort and full of crudities but if the Legends are received by our best critics as well as _Pauline_ was received I shall be well pleased with my efforts.
Who acts: That, best critics, I · What happens: be, receive · To what, where: first real effort, Legends, Pauline
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 (That, best critics, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 effort | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 effort | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 effort | nmod:poss |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 effort | amod |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 effort | amod |
| 6 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 full | cc |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 effort | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 crudities | case |
| 10 | crudities | crudity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 full | obl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 received | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 received | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Legends | det |
| 14 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 received | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 received | aux:pass |
| 16 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 full | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 critics | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 critics | nmod:poss |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 critics | amod |
| 20 | critics | critic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 received | obl |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 28 received | cc |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 received | punct |
| 25 | Pauline | Pauline | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 received | nsubj |
| 26 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Pauline | flat |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 received | aux:pass |
| 28 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 received | conj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 pleased | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 pleased | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 pleased | cop |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 pleased | advmod |
| 33 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 received | parataxis |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 efforts | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 36 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 pleased | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 effort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | my first real effort | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | That not said here | of crudities | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | receive a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | our best critics | the Legends | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | receive | past · passive | Pauline | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | shall | I | with my efforts; pleased, well property | tree rules |
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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