Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 91

Then Según, the fair youth, answered: "Lo I breathe upon the hill-sides, On the valleys and the meadows, And behold, as if by magic-- By the magic of the Spirits, Spring the flowers and tender grasses."

Who acts: Según · What happens: answer, breathe · To what, where: valleys · 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 (Según), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 answered	advmod
2	Según	Según	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 youth	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 youth	amod
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Según	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Según	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 breathe	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 breathe	punct
11	Lo	lo	INTJ	_	13 breathe	discourse
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 breathe	nsubj
13	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	conj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 sides	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sides	det
16	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sides	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 hill	punct
18	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 breathe	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 valleys	punct
20	On	on	ADP	_	22 valleys	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 valleys	det
22	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 breathe	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 meadows	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 meadows	det
25	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 valleys	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 behold	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 behold	cc
28	behold	behold	INTJ	_	8 answered	discourse
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 magic	punct
30	as	as	ADP	_	33 magic	case
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 magic	mark
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 magic	case
33	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	parataxis
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 magic	punct
35	By	by	ADP	_	37 magic	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 magic	det
37	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 magic	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 Spirits	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Spirits	det
40	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 magic	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Spring	punct
42	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Spirits	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 flowers	det
44	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 Spirits	conj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 grasses	cc
46	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 grasses	amod
47	grasses	grass	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 flowers	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 magic	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 magic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Según				then	magic by the magic of the Spirits and Spring and the flowers and tender grasses parataxis	tree rules
2	breathe in a quote	present	Según			the valleys and the meadows		upon the hill sides	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on valley=Destination

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 91

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 91