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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 100

Upward then he climbed the ether-- On the Bridge of Stars [1022] he traveled, Westward traveled on his journey To the far-off Sunset Mountains-- To the gloomy land of shadows.

Who acts: Westward · What happens: climb, travel, journey · To what, where: ether, Bridge, journey

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Westward), 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

advmodadvmodnsubjdetobjpunctcasedetoblcasenmodpunctoblpunctnsubjacl:relclpunctnsubjconjcasenmod:possoblcasedetamodpunctoblcompoundnmodpunctcasedetamodoblcasenmodpunctrootUpwardADVthenADVhePRONclimbedVERBtheDETetherNOUN--PUNCTOnADPtheDETBridgePROPNofADPStarsNOUN[PUNCT1022NUM]PUNCThePRONtraveledVERB,PUNCTWestwardPROPNtraveledVERBonADPhisPRONjourneyNOUNToADPtheDETfarADJ-PUNCToffNOUNSunsetPROPNMountainsPROPN--PUNCTToADPtheDETgloomyADJlandNOUNofADPshadowsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1UpwardupwardADV_4 climbedadvmod
2thenthenADVPronType=Dem4 climbedadvmod
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 climbednsubj
4climbedclimbVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 etherdet
6etheretherNOUNNumber=Sing4 climbedobj
7----PUNCT_10 Bridgepunct
8OnonADP_10 Bridgecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Bridgedet
10BridgeBridgePROPNNumber=Sing4 climbedobl
11ofofADP_12 Starscase
12StarsstarNOUNNumber=Plur10 Bridgenmod
13[[PUNCT_14 1022punct
1410221022NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card4 climbedobl
15]]PUNCT_14 1022punct
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 travelednsubj
17traveledtravelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 1022acl:relcl
18,,PUNCT_20 traveledpunct
19WestwardWestwardPROPNNumber=Sing20 travelednsubj
20traveledtravelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 climbedconj
21ononADP_23 journeycase
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 journeynmod:poss
23journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing20 traveledobl
24TotoADP_28 offcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 offdet
26farfarADJDegree=Pos28 offamod
27--PUNCT_26 farpunct
28offoffNOUNNumber=Sing20 traveledobl
29SunsetSunsetPROPNNumber=Sing30 Mountainscompound
30MountainsMountainPROPNNumber=Plur28 offnmod
31----PUNCT_35 landpunct
32TotoADP_35 landcase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 landdet
34gloomygloomyADJDegree=Pos35 landamod
35landlandNOUNNumber=Sing20 traveledobl
36ofofADP_37 shadowscase
37shadowsshadowNOUNNumber=Plur35 landnmod
38..PUNCT_4 climbedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1climbpastWestwardthe etherthe Bridge of Starsthen1022 obl; upward propertyvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ether=Theme
2travelpastWestwardvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3travelpastWestwardWestward's journeyto the far off Sunset Mountains; to the gloomy land of shadowsvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to off=Destination
4journeyWestwardnom journey «act 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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