Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 53

[1012]Madly then he loved the woman; Then she ruled him, then she held him Tangled in her raven tresses, Tied and tangled in her tresses.

Who acts: panther, woman · What happens: love, rule, hold, tangle, tress, tie · To what, where: 1012, panther, raven, tresses

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 (panther, woman), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 1012	punct
2	1012	1012	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 loved	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 1012	punct
4	Madly	madly	ADV	_	7 loved	advmod
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 loved	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loved	nsubj
7	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loved	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 ruled	punct
11	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 ruled	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ruled	nsubj
13	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loved	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ruled	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 held	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 held	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 held	nsubj
18	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ruled	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 held	obj
20	Tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 tresses	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 raven	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 raven	nmod:poss
23	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tresses	obl
24	tresses	tress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 held	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Tied	punct
26	Tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 tresses	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tangled	cc
28	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 Tied	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 tresses	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tresses	nmod:poss
31	tresses	tress	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tangled	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	panther	1012		then	the woman obj; madly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
2	rule	past	woman	panther		then		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Result
3	hold	past	woman	panther		then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	tangle	participle						tree rules
5	tress	present	woman not said here		woman's raven			tree rules
6	tie	participle	woman not said here					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	tangle	participle	woman not said here		woman's tresses			tree rules

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 53