Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 37
Like one walking in his slumber, Listless, dreaming walked the Panther; Surely had some witch bewitched him, Some bad spirit of the forest.
Who acts: witch, Sullen · What happens: walk, dream, have, bewitch, slumber · To what, where: slumber, Panther, Sullen
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 (witch, 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 walked | obl |
| 3 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 walked | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 slumber | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 slumber | nmod:poss |
| 6 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Listless | punct |
| 8 | Listless | Listless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 slumber | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dreaming | punct |
| 10 | dreaming | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Panther | det |
| 13 | Panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 16 had | advmod |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 walked | conj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 witch | det |
| 18 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bewitched | nsubj |
| 19 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bewitched | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 spirit | punct |
| 22 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 spirit | det |
| 23 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spirit | amod |
| 24 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bewitched | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 forest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spirit | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | Sullen's slumber | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in slumber=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | dream | gerund | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | walk | past | the Panther | like one | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme panther=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | have | past | surely property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bewitch | past | some witch | Sullen | some bad spirit of the forest obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | slumber | Sullen | nom slumber «state intransitive»: 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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