Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 72

All the lingering fowls departed-- All that seek the South in winter, All but Shingebís, the diver.

What happens: depart, seek · To what, where: lingering, that

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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 lingering	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lingering	det
3	lingering	lingering	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 departed	nsubj:pass
4	fowls	fowl	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 departed	aux:pass
5	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 seek	punct
7	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 that	det:predet
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 seek	obl
9	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 departed	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 South	det
11	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seek	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 winter	case
13	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seek	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Shingebís	punct
15	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 Shingebís	det
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 Shingebís	cc
17	Shingebís	Shingebís	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seek	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 diver	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 diver	det
20	diver	diver	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Shingebís	appos
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 departed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depart	present · passive		all lingering					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location
2	seek	infinitive		that			winter	the South obj; all Shingebís parataxis	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent south=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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 72