Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 42
Sad at heart was Sea-Gull waiting, Watching, waiting in the wigwam; Not alone the storms of winters Sifted frost upon her tresses.
Who acts: Sad heart, winters · What happens: be, watch, wait, sift, storm · To what, where: Sea Gull waiting, wigwam
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 (Sad heart, 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 | Sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heart | amod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 heart | case |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waiting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waiting | cop |
| 5 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 waiting | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sea | punct |
| 7 | Gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waiting | compound |
| 8 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Watching | punct |
| 10 | Watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 waiting | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waiting | punct |
| 12 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 Watching | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wigwam | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wigwam | det |
| 15 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waiting | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 storms | punct |
| 17 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 storms | advmod |
| 18 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 17 Not | fixed |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 storms | det |
| 20 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 waiting | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 winters | case |
| 22 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 storms | nmod |
| 23 | Sifted | sift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 frost | amod |
| 24 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 winters | conj |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 tresses | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tresses | nmod:poss |
| 27 | tresses | tress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 frost | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sad heart | Sea Gull waiting and the storms of winters and Sifted frost upon witch's tresses | the storms of winters and Sifted frost upon witch's tresses conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | watch | gerund | Sad heart not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | Sad heart not said here | the wigwam | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wigwam=Location | ||||
| 4 | sift | participle | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | storm | winters and Sifted frost upon witch's tresses | 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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