Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 39
This beautiful allegory has been "done into verse" by Longfellow in _Hiawatha_.
Who acts: Longfellow · What happens: do · To what, where: beautiful allegory, verse
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Longfellow), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 allegory | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 allegory | amod |
| 3 | allegory | allegory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 verse | case |
| 9 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 done | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Longfellow | case |
| 12 | Longfellow | Longfellow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 done | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 _ | case |
| 14 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Longfellow | nmod |
| 15 | Hiawatha | Hiawatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 _ | flat |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Longfellow in _ | this beautiful allegory | verse | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
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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