Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 35
Forth into the tangled forest, Threading through the thorny thickets, Treading, trails on marsh and meadow, Sullen strode the moody hunter.
Who acts: tangled forest, Sullen · What happens: tangle, thread, tread, stride · To what, where: thorny thickets, trails, marsh, moody hunter, tangled forest
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 (tangled forest, Sullen), 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 | Forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 forest | advmod |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 forest | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 4 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 forest | amod |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strode | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Threading | punct |
| 7 | Threading | thread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 forest | acl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 thickets | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thickets | det |
| 10 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thickets | amod |
| 11 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Threading | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Treading | punct |
| 13 | Treading | tread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Threading | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trails | punct |
| 15 | trails | trail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Treading | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 marsh | case |
| 17 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Treading | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 meadow | cc |
| 19 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marsh | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 forest | punct |
| 21 | Sullen | Sullen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 strode | nsubj |
| 22 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hunter | det |
| 24 | moody | moody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hunter | amod |
| 25 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strode | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tangle | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | thread | gerund | the tangled forest not said here | the thorny thickets | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tread | gerund | the tangled forest not said here | trails | marsh and meadow | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location trail=Theme | |||
| 4 | stride | past | Sullen | the moody hunter | the tangled forest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hunter=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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