Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 33

Has he put a spell upon you-- Filled your heart with bitter waters, That you sit so sad and sullen, Sit and smoke, but never answer, Only when the storm is on you?"

Who acts: goblin, That, storm · What happens: put, fill, sit, not answer, be · To what, where: spell, heart, Sit

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 (goblin, That, storm), 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	Has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 put	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spell	det
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 put	obl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 Filled	punct
9	Filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 put	conj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 heart	nmod:poss
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Filled	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 waters	case
13	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 waters	amod
14	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Filled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sit	punct
16	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 sit	nsubj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 sit	nsubj
18	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 put	parataxis
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 sad	advmod
20	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sit	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sullen	cc
22	sullen	sullen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sad	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Sit	punct
24	Sit	Sit	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sit	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 smoke	cc
26	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Sit	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 answer	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 answer	cc
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 answer	advmod
30	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sit	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 you	punct
32	Only	only	ADV	_	38 you	advmod
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	38 you	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 storm	det
35	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 you	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 you	cop
37	on	on	ADP	_	38 you	case
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 answer	parataxis
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	present	goblin	a spell	upon you	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme upon you=Destination
2	fill	participle	goblin not said here	your heart	with bitter waters	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heart=Patient with water=Instrument
3	sit	present	That	Sit and smoke	you nsubj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not answer speech: assert	infinitive	That not said here			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	the storm		on you	tree rules

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 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 33