Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 82
[1019] Like the rising sun his face was, Like the shining stars his eyes were, Light his footsteps as the Morning's.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: rise, shine, be · To what, where: Light, Light footsteps
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 (eyes), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1019 | punct |
| 2 | 1019 | 1019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 footsteps | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1019 | punct |
| 4 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 7 sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 6 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sun | amod |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 1019 | nmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sun | conj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 footsteps | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Light | punct |
| 12 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 15 stars | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stars | det |
| 14 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stars | amod |
| 15 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Light | obl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Light | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Light | cop |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Light | punct |
| 20 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 footsteps | compound |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 22 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 Morning | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Morning | det |
| 25 | Morning | Morning | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 footsteps | nmod |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Morning | case |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 footsteps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | Came's eyes | Light | like the shining stars | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | past | Came's Light footsteps | as the Morning | 1019 like the rising sun and Came's face obl; Came nmod:poss | 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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