Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 81

From the far-off Sunny Islands, From the pleasant land of Summer, Where the spirits of the blessèd Feel no more the fangs of hunger, Or the cold breath of Kewâydin, Came a stately youth and handsome, Came Según the foe of Winter.

Who acts: spirits · What happens: feel, come · To what, where: more fangs, youth, far Sunny Islands

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 (spirits), 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	From	from	ADP	_	7 Islands	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Islands	det
3	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Islands	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 far	punct
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 Islands	case
6	Sunny	Sunny	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Islands	compound
7	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 land	punct
9	From	from	ADP	_	12 land	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 land	det
11	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 land	amod
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Islands	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Summer	case
14	Summer	Summer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 land	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Feel	punct
16	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 Feel	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spirits	det
18	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 Feel	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 blessèd	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 blessèd	det
21	blessèd	blessèd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spirits	nmod
22	Feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 land	parataxis
23	no	no	ADV	_	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 fangs	amod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fangs	det
26	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 Feel	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 hunger	case
28	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fangs	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 breath	punct
30	Or	or	CCONJ	_	33 breath	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 breath	det
32	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 breath	amod
33	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Feel	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Kewâydin	case
35	Kewâydin	Kewâydin	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 breath	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Came	punct
37	Came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Feel	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 youth	det
39	stately	stately	ADV	_	40 youth	advmod
40	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Came	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 handsome	cc
42	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 youth	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Came	punct
44	Came	Came	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 youth	appos
45	Según	Según	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Came	flat
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 foe	det
47	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 Came	appos
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 Winter	case
49	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 foe	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Islands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	infinitive	the spirits of the blessèd	the more fangs of hunger				the cold breath of Kewâydin obl	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fang=Theme
2	come	past	the spirits of the blessèd not said here	a youth					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location youth=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 81

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 81