Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 5
Deep as Gitchee Gumee's waters Was her love--as broad and boundless; And the wedded twain were happy-- Happy as the mated robins.
Who acts: wedded twain · What happens: be, wed, mate · To what, where: Deep love
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 (wedded twain), 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 | Deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 love | amod |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 waters | case |
| 3 | Gitchee | Gitchee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 waters | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Gumee | Gumee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gitchee | flat |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Gitchee | case |
| 6 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Deep | obl |
| 7 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 love | cop |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 love | nmod:poss |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 broad | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 broad | case |
| 12 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 love | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 boundless | cc |
| 14 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 broad | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 happy | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 happy | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 twain | det |
| 18 | wedded | wed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 twain | amod |
| 19 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 happy | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 happy | cop |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 love | parataxis |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 Happy | punct |
| 23 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 happy | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 robins | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 robins | det |
| 26 | mated | mate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 robins | amod |
| 27 | robins | robin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Happy | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Gitchee's Deep love | Gitchee nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wed | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the wedded twain | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the wedded twain not said here | as the mated robins | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | mate | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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