Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 49
Lo behind the haughty hunter, Closely following in his footsteps, Walked a young and handsome woman, Walked the Red Fox from the island-- Gitchee Ménis--the Grand Island,-- Followed him into the wigwam, Proudly took her seat beside him.
What happens: follow, walk, take · To what, where: young woman, Red Fox, island, husband, wigwam, seat
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 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 8 following | discourse |
| 2 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 hunter | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hunter | det |
| 4 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hunter | amod |
| 5 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lo | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lo | punct |
| 7 | Closely | closely | ADV | _ | 8 following | advmod |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 footsteps | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 footsteps | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 11 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Walked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 footsteps | punct |
| 13 | Walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 handsome | cc |
| 17 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 young | conj |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Walked | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Walked | punct |
| 20 | Walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Walked | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Fox | det |
| 22 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Fox | compound |
| 23 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Walked | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 island | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 island | det |
| 26 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Walked | obl |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 Gitchee | punct |
| 28 | Gitchee | Gitchee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 island | appos |
| 29 | Ménis | Ménis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Gitchee | flat |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 Island | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Island | det |
| 32 | Grand | Grand | PROPN | _ | 33 Island | compound |
| 33 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Gitchee | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Followed | punct |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 Followed | punct |
| 36 | Followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Walked | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 Followed | obj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 wigwam | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 wigwam | det |
| 40 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Followed | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 took | punct |
| 42 | Proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 43 took | advmod |
| 43 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Walked | conj |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 seat | nmod:poss |
| 45 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 took | obj |
| 46 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 took | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | closely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | a young woman | follow husband's footsteps | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Agent | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | the Red Fox | the island | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fox=Theme from island=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | follow | past | husband | the wigwam | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme into wigwam=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | take | past | Till's seat | beside husband; proudly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=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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