Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 34
Mihihna, Mihihna, my young heart flew Far away with my brave to the bison-chase; To the battle it went with my warrior true, And never returned till I saw his face.
Who acts: Mihihna, heart, I · What happens: fly, go, not return, see · To what, where: battle, face
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mihihna, heart, 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 | Mihihna | Mihihna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mihihna | punct |
| 3 | Mihihna | Mihihna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mihihna | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 heart | amod |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 flew | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 brave | mark |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brave | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flew | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 chase | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chase | det |
| 16 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chase | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 bison | punct |
| 18 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brave | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 20 | To | to | ADP | _ | 22 battle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 battle | det |
| 22 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 warrior | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 warrior | nmod:poss |
| 27 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 28 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 went | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 returned | punct |
| 30 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 returned | cc |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 returned | advmod |
| 32 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 33 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 35 saw | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 saw | nsubj |
| 35 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 returned | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 face | nmod:poss |
| 37 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 saw | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Mihihna | my young heart nsubj; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | heart | the battle | with my warrior; true property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to battle=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | not return | past | Mihihna not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | I | song's face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
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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