Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 4
When the Panther wed the Sea-Gull, Young was he and very gladsome; Fair was she and full of laughter; Like the robin in the spring time, Sang from sunrise till the sunset; For she loved the handsome hunter.
Who acts: Panther, Fair · What happens: w, be, love · To what, where: Sea Gull, handsome hunter
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, Fair), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 wed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Panther | det |
| 3 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wed | nsubj |
| 4 | wed | w | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 loved | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Gull | det |
| 6 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Gull | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sea | punct |
| 8 | Gull | Gull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Young | punct |
| 10 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 gladsome | advcl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gladsome | cop |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gladsome | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gladsome | cc |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 gladsome | advmod |
| 15 | gladsome | gladsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wed | parataxis |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 wed | punct |
| 17 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 full | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 full | cop |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 full | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 full | cc |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wed | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 laughter | case |
| 23 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 full | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 robin | punct |
| 25 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 27 robin | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 robin | det |
| 27 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wed | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 time | det |
| 30 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 time | compound |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 robin | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Sang | punct |
| 33 | Sang | Sang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 robin | conj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 sunrise | case |
| 35 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 robin | nmod |
| 36 | till | till | ADP | _ | 38 sunset | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sunset | det |
| 38 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sunrise | nmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 loved | punct |
| 40 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 42 loved | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 loved | nsubj |
| 42 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 hunter | det |
| 44 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 hunter | amod |
| 45 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 loved | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | w | past | the Panther | the Sea Gull | the robin in the spring time from sunrise till the sunset and Sang parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | panther | gladsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Fair | of laughter; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | past | Fair | the handsome hunter | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunter=Stimulus |
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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