Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 30

Not by word or look he answered; Only ate the food provided, Filled, his pipe and pensive puffed it, Smoked and sat in sullen silence.

Who acts: panther, pipe · What happens: look, answer, eat, provide, fill, puff · To what, where: food, word, sullen silence

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 (panther, pipe), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 word	advmod
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 word	case
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 look	cc
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 word	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 answered	nsubj
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 look	ccomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 ate	punct
9	Only	only	ADV	_	10 ate	advmod
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 word	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 food	det
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ate	obj
13	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ate	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Filled	punct
15	Filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 provided	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 puffed	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 pipe	nmod:poss
18	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 puffed	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pensive	cc
20	pensive	pensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pipe	conj
21	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ate	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 puffed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Smoked	punct
24	Smoked	smoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 puffed	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 Smoked	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 silence	case
28	sullen	sullen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 silence	amod
29	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 word	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	look	infinitive				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	panther			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	past		the food		tree rules
4	provide	participle				vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
5	fill	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	puff	past	panther's pipe	word		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Source
7	smoke	participle				vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	sit	past			sullen silence	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location

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, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 30