Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 93

[1020] I breathe upon the forests, And the leaves fall sere and yellow; Then I shake my locks and snow falls, Covering all the naked landscape."

Who acts: I, leaves, snow · What happens: breathe, fall, shake, cover · To what, where: 1020, locks, naked landscape

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 (I, leaves, snow), 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 1020	punct
2	1020	1020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 breathe	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 1020	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 breathe	nsubj
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 forests	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forests	det
8	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 breathe	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fall	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 fall	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 leaves	det
12	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fall	nsubj
13	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 breathe	conj
14	sere	sere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fall	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 yellow	cc
16	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sere	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 shake	punct
18	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 shake	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 shake	nsubj
20	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 breathe	parataxis
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 locks	nmod:poss
22	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shake	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 falls	cc
24	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 falls	nsubj
25	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 shake	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Covering	punct
27	Covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 falls	advcl
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 landscape	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 landscape	det
30	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 landscape	amod
31	landscape	landscape	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Covering	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 shake	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 shake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	I	1020		upon the forests	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	present	the leaves			sere property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shake	infinitive	I	my locks	then		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lock=Patient
4	fall	present	snow				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cover	gerund	snow not said here	all naked landscape			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme landscape=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 93

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 93