Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 8
Nightly from the land of spirits On them smiled the starry faces,-- Faces of their friends departed.
Who acts: Faces · What happens: smile, depart · To what, where: starry faces, land
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 (Faces), 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 | Nightly | nightly | ADV | _ | 9 smiled | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 land | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 land | det |
| 4 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smiled | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 spirits | case |
| 6 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 land | nmod |
| 7 | On | on | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spirits | nmod |
| 9 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 faces | det |
| 11 | starry | starry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 faces | amod |
| 12 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 smiled | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 departed | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 departed | punct |
| 15 | Faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 departed | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 friends | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friends | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Faces | nmod |
| 19 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 smiled | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | the starry faces | the land of spirits on spirits | nightly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Topic | |||
| 2 | depart | past | Faces of faces's friends | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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