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Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 35

Mihihna, Mihihna, my brave was glad When he came from the chase of the roebuck fleet; Sweet were the words that my hunter said, As his trophies he laid at Anpétu's feet.

Who acts: Mihihna, Sweet, hunter, song · What happens: be, come, say, lay, chase · To what, where: chase, words, that, trophies, feet, roebuck fleet · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Sweet, hunter, song), 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

nsubjpunctflatpunctnmod:possamodcopadvcladvmodnsubjcasedetoblcasedetcompoundnmodpunctnsubjcopdetoblobjnmod:possnsubjnmodpunctcasenmod:possobjnsubjacl:relclcasenmod:posscaseoblpunctrootMihihnaPROPN,PUNCTMihihnaPROPN,PUNCTmyPRONbraveADJwasAUXgladADJWhenADVhePRONcameVERBfromADPtheDETchaseNOUNofADPtheDETroebuckNOUNfleetNOUN;PUNCTSweetPROPNwereAUXtheDETwordsNOUNthatPRONmyPRONhunterNOUNsaidVERB,PUNCTAsADPhisPRONtrophiesNOUNhePRONlaidVERBatADPAnpétuPROPN'sPARTfeetNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MihihnaMihihnaPROPNNumber=Sing11 camensubj
2,,PUNCT_3 Mihihnapunct
3MihihnaMihihnaPROPNNumber=Sing1 Mihihnaflat
4,,PUNCT_8 gladpunct
5mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 gladnmod:poss
6bravebraveADJDegree=Pos8 gladamod
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 gladcop
8gladgladADJDegree=Pos11 cameadvcl
9WhenwhenADVPronType=Int11 cameadvmod
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 camensubj
11camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12fromfromADP_14 chasecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 chasedet
14chasechaseNOUNNumber=Sing11 cameobl
15ofofADP_18 fleetcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 fleetdet
17roebuckroebuckNOUNNumber=Sing18 fleetcompound
18fleetfleetNOUNNumber=Sing14 chasenmod
19;;PUNCT_23 wordspunct
20SweetSweetPROPNNumber=Sing23 wordsnsubj
21werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 wordscop
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 wordsdet
23wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur11 cameobl
24thatthatPRONPronType=Rel27 saidobj
25mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 hunternmod:poss
26hunterhunterNOUNNumber=Sing27 saidnsubj
27saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 wordsnmod
28,,PUNCT_31 trophiespunct
29AsasADP_31 trophiescase
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 trophiesnmod:poss
31trophiestrophyNOUNNumber=Plur27 saidobj
32hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 laidnsubj
33laidlayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 trophiesacl:relcl
34atatADP_37 feetcase
35AnpétuAnpétuPROPNNumber=Sing37 feetnmod:poss
36's'sPART_35 Anpétucase
37feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur33 laidobl
38..PUNCT_11 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastMihihna not said heremy nmod:poss; glad propertytree rules
2comepastMihihnathe chase of the roebuck fleetsong nsubjvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chase=Initial_Location
3is apastSweetthe wordstree rules
4say speech: assertpastmy hunterthatsong's trophies objvn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme trophy=Manner
5laypastsongsong's trophies not said hereAnpétu's feetvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trophy=Theme at foot=Destination
6chasethe roebuck fleetnom chase «act transitive»: of=patient

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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