Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 90

"Lo I blow my breath," said Winter, "And the laughing brooks are silent; Hard as flint become the waters, And the rabbit runs upon them."

Who acts: Winter, laughing brooks, flint, rabbit · What happens: blow, say, be, become, run · To what, where: breath, waters · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Winter, laughing brooks, flint, rabbit), 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	_	4 blow	punct
2	Lo	lo	INTJ	_	4 blow	discourse
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 blow	nsubj
4	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 breath	nmod:poss
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blow	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blow	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 blow	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blow	parataxis
10	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blow	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 blow	punct
13	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 silent	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brooks	det
15	laughing	laughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brooks	compound
16	brooks	brook	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 silent	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 silent	cop
18	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blow	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 Hard	punct
20	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blow	conj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 become	mark
22	flint	flint	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 become	nsubj
23	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Hard	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 waters	det
25	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 become	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 runs	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	30 runs	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rabbit	det
29	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 runs	nsubj
30	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blow	conj
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 runs	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blow	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 blow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blow in a quote	infinitive	Winter	my breath		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Winter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the laughing brooks		silent property	tree rules
4	become in a quote	present	flint	the waters		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	run in a quote	present	the rabbit		upon brooks = brook	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Trajectory

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 90

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 90