Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 78
Friends they seemed in word and action, But within the breast of either Smouldered still the baneful embers-- Fires of jealousy and hatred,--
Who acts: Friends · What happens: seem, smoulder, fire · To what, where: breast, jealousy
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 (Friends), 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 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 word | case |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 action | cc |
| 7 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 breast | punct |
| 9 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 breast | cc |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 breast | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 breast | det |
| 12 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 embers | case |
| 14 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 19 embers | cc:preconj |
| 15 | Smouldered | smoulder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 embers | amod |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 embers | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 embers | det |
| 18 | baneful | baneful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 embers | amod |
| 19 | embers | ember | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 breast | nmod |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 Fires | punct |
| 21 | Fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 embers | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 jealousy | case |
| 23 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Fires | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hatred | cc |
| 25 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jealousy | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 breast | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Friends | the breast of the Smouldered baneful embers and Fires of jealousy and hatred | in word and action; friends = friend nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in word=Attribute | |||
| 2 | smoulder | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fire | jealousy and hatred | nom fire «event transitive»: of=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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