Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 45
With the Summer flew the robin, Flew the bobolink and blue-bird.
What happens: fly · To what, where: robin, bobolink
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: 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 Summer | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Summer | det |
| 3 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 robin | det |
| 6 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Flew | punct |
| 8 | Flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bobolink | det |
| 10 | bobolink | bobolink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Flew | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bird | cc |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bird | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 blue | punct |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bobolink | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the robin | with the Summer | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location robin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the bobolink and blue bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bobolink=Theme |
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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