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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 47

One long moon the Sea-Gull waited, Watched and waited for her husband, Till at last she heard his footsteps, Heard him coming through the thicket.

Who acts: One long moon, Till, Gull · What happens: wait, watch, hear, come · To what, where: footsteps, Gull, thicket

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 (One long moon, Till, Gull), 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

nummodamodnsubjdetcompoundpunctnsubjpunctconjccconjcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjcasenmodnsubjconjnmod:possobjpunctconjobjxcompcasedetoblpunctrootOneNUMlongADJmoonNOUNtheDETSeaPROPN-PUNCTGullPROPNwaitedVERB,PUNCTWatchedVERBandCCONJwaitedVERBforADPherPRONhusbandNOUN,PUNCTTillPROPNatADPlastADJshePRONheardVERBhisPRONfootstepsNOUN,PUNCTHeardVERBhimPRONcomingVERBthroughADPtheDETthicketNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card3 moonnummod
2longlongADJDegree=Pos3 moonamod
3moonmoonNOUNNumber=Sing8 waitednsubj
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Gulldet
5SeaSeaPROPNNumber=Sing7 Gullcompound
6--PUNCT_5 Seapunct
7GullGullPROPNNumber=Sing8 waitednsubj
8waitedwaitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9,,PUNCT_10 Watchedpunct
10WatchedwatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 waitedconj
11andandCCONJ_12 waitedcc
12waitedwaitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 Watchedconj
13forforADP_15 husbandcase
14herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 husbandnmod:poss
15husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing12 waitedobl
16,,PUNCT_17 Tillpunct
17TillTillPROPNNumber=Sing21 heardnsubj
18atatADP_19 lastcase
19lastlastADJDegree=Pos17 Tillnmod
20sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 heardnsubj
21heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 waitedconj
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 footstepsnmod:poss
23footstepsfootstepNOUNNumber=Plur21 heardobj
24,,PUNCT_25 Heardpunct
25HeardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 heardconj
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 Heardobj
27comingcomeVERBVerbForm=Ger25 Heardxcomp
28throughthroughADP_30 thicketcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 thicketdet
30thicketthicketNOUNNumber=Sing27 comingobl
31..PUNCT_8 waitedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1waitpastOne long moonthe Sea Gull nsubjvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2watchpastOne long moon not said herevn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3waitpastOne long moon not said herefor moon's husbandvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4hearpastTill at lastGull's footstepsvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footstep=Stimulus
5hearpastTill at last not said hereGulltree rules
6comegerundGull not said herethe thicketvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through thicket=Initial_Location

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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