Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 77

By the lodge-fire all the winter Sat the Sea-Gull and the Red Fox, Sat and kindly spoke and chatted, Till the twain seemed friends together.

Who acts: winter, twain · What happens: sit, speak, chat, seem · To what, where: Sea Gull, friends · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (winter, 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	By	by	ADP	_	5 fire	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
3	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fire	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 lodge	punct
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Sat	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 winter	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 winter	det
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Sat	nsubj
9	Sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Gull	det
11	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Gull	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Sea	punct
13	Gull	Gull	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sat	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Fox	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Fox	det
16	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Fox	flat
17	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Gull	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Sat	punct
19	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Gull	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spoke	cc
21	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	22 spoke	advmod
22	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Sat	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 chatted	cc
24	chatted	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 spoke	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seemed	punct
26	Till	till	SCONJ	_	29 seemed	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 twain	det
28	twain	twain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seemed	nsubj
29	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 chatted	ccomp
30	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 seemed	xcomp
31	together	together	ADV	_	29 seemed	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	all winter	the Sea Gull and the Red Fox and Sat	by the lodge fire	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent gull=Theme by fire=Location
2	speak speech: other	past	all winter not said here		kindly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	chat speech: other	past	all winter not said here			tree rules
4	seem	past	the twain	friends	together property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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 77

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 77