Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 39
Not alone the storms of winters Seamed her tawny face with wrinkles.
Who acts: winters · What happens: seam, storm · To what, where: tawny face, storms
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 (winters), 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 | 4 storms | advmod |
| 2 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 1 Not | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 storms | det |
| 4 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 winters | case |
| 6 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 storms | nmod |
| 7 | Seamed | seam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 winters | acl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tawny | tawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 face | amod |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Seamed | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 wrinkles | case |
| 12 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Seamed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 storms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seam | participle | winters not said here | witch's tawny face | with wrinkles | tree rules | |||
| 3 | storm | winters | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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