Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 102
On the South wind floated fragrance Of the early buds and blossoms.
What happens: float · To what, where: fragrance, South wind
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 wind | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wind | det |
| 3 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wind | compound |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floated | obl |
| 5 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floated | obj |
| 7 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 10 buds | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 buds | det |
| 9 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 buds | amod |
| 10 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fragrance | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 blossoms | cc |
| 12 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 buds | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past | fragrance of the early buds and blossoms | the South wind | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme on wind=Trajectory |
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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