Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 38

Mihihna, Mihihna, the Scarlet Leaf Has robbed my boy of his father's love; He sleeps in my arms--he will find no grief In the star-lit lodge in the land above.

Who acts: boy, father · What happens: rob, sleep, find, lit, love · To what, where: Mihihna, arms, grief, lit lodge

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 (boy, father), 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	9 robbed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Mihihna	punct
3	Mihihna	Mihihna	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mihihna	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 robbed	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Leaf	det
6	Scarlet	Scarlet	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Leaf	compound
7	Leaf	Leaf	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 robbed	nsubj:pass
8	Has	Have	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 robbed	aux
9	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 boy	nmod:poss
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 robbed	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 love	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 love	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 father	case
16	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boy	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sleeps	punct
18	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sleeps	nsubj
19	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 robbed	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 arms	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arms	nmod:poss
22	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sleeps	obl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 find	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 find	aux
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sleeps	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 grief	det
28	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	obj
29	In	in	ADP	_	34 lodge	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lodge	det
31	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lit	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 star	punct
33	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 lodge	amod
34	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 land	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 land	det
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lodge	nmod
38	above	above	ADV	_	37 land	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 robbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rob	perfect · passive		Mihihna		the Scarlet Leaf nsubj:pass; my boy of boy's father's love obj	tree rules
2	sleep	present	boy		my arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in arm=Location
3	find	future	boy	no grief	the lit lodge in the land		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Topic
4	lit	participle				star compound	tree rules
5	love		boy's father				nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 38