Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 80
So the baneful embers smouldered, Smouldered in the breast of either.
Who acts: baneful embers · What happens: smoulder · To what, where: breast
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 (baneful embers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 smouldered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 embers | det |
| 3 | baneful | baneful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 embers | amod |
| 4 | embers | ember | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smouldered | nsubj |
| 5 | smouldered | smoulder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Smouldered | punct |
| 7 | Smouldered | smoulder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 smouldered | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 breast | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 breast | det |
| 10 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Smouldered | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 either | case |
| 12 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 breast | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 smouldered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smoulder | past | the baneful embers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | smoulder | participle | the baneful embers not said here | the breast of either | 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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