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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 59

Merry is the life of the gay _voyageur_ He rides on the river with his paddle in his hand, And his boat is his shelter on the water and the land.

Who acts: Merry, boat · What happens: be, ride · To what, where: life, river, shelter, water

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Merry, boat), 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

nsubjcopdetcasedetnmodpunctconjpunctnsubjparataxiscasedetoblcasenmod:possoblcasenmod:possoblpunctccnmod:possnsubjcopnmod:possoblcasedetnmodccdetconjpunctrootMerryPROPNisAUXtheDETlifeNOUNofADPtheDETgayNOUN_PUNCTvoyageurNOUN_PUNCTHePRONridesVERBonADPtheDETriverNOUNwithADPhisPRONpaddleNOUNinADPhisPRONhandNOUN,PUNCTAndCCONJhisPRONboatNOUNisAUXhisPRONshelterNOUNonADPtheDETwaterNOUNandCCONJtheDETlandNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MerryMerryPROPNNumber=Sing4 lifensubj
2isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 lifecop
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 lifedet
4lifelifeNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
5ofofADP_7 gaycase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 gaydet
7gaygayNOUNNumber=Sing4 lifenmod
8__PUNCT_9 voyageurpunct
9voyageurvoyageurNOUNNumber=Sing7 gayconj
10__PUNCT_12 ridespunct
11HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 ridesnsubj
12ridesrideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 lifeparataxis
13ononADP_15 rivercase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 riverdet
15riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing12 ridesobl
16withwithADP_18 paddlecase
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 paddlenmod:poss
18paddlepaddleNOUNNumber=Sing12 ridesobl
19ininADP_21 handcase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 handnmod:poss
21handhandNOUNNumber=Sing12 ridesobl
22,,PUNCT_28 shelterpunct
23AndandCCONJ_28 sheltercc
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 boatnmod:poss
25boatboatNOUNNumber=Sing28 shelternsubj
26isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 sheltercop
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 shelternmod:poss
28sheltershelterNOUNNumber=Sing12 ridesobl
29ononADP_31 watercase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 waterdet
31waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing28 shelternmod
32andandCCONJ_34 landcc
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 landdet
34landlandNOUNNumber=Sing31 waterconj
35..PUNCT_4 lifepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentMerrythe lifeof the gay and voyageurtree rules
2ridepresentMerrythe riverwith Merry's paddle; in Merry's handvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3is apresentMerry's boatMerry's shelterthe water and the landMerry nmod:posstree 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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