Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 85
There old Péboân sat and shivered, Shivered o'er his dying lodge-fire.
Who acts: old Péboân, Péboân · What happens: sit, shiver, die, fire
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 (old Péboân, Péboân), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 sat | expl |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Péboân | amod |
| 3 | Péboân | Péboân | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shivered | cc |
| 6 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Shivered | punct |
| 8 | Shivered | shiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sat | conj |
| 9 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 14 fire | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fire | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 fire | amod |
| 12 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fire | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 lodge | punct |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Shivered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | old Péboân | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shiver | past | old Péboân not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | shiver | participle | old Péboân not said here | o'er Péboân's dying lodge fire | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 5 | fire | Péboân | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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