Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 95

[1020]--see!--I shake my ringlets; On the earth the warm rain falleth, And the flowers look up like children Glad-eyed from their mother's bosom.

Who acts: I, warm rain, flowers, mother · What happens: see, shake, fall, look up, eye, bosom · To what, where: 1020, earth, children, bosom

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, warm rain, flowers, mother), 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	9 shake	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 1020	punct
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 1020	parataxis
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 shake	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 shake	nsubj
9	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ringlets	nmod:poss
11	ringlets	ringlet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shake	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 falleth	punct
13	On	on	ADP	_	15 earth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 earth	det
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 falleth	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rain	det
17	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rain	amod
18	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 falleth	nsubj
19	falleth	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 shake	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 look	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 flowers	det
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 look	nsubj
24	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 shake	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 look	compound:prt
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 children	case
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 look	obl
28	Glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 children	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Glad	punct
30	eyed	eye	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 children	acl
31	from	from	ADP	_	35 bosom	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mother	nmod:poss
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bosom	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 mother	case
35	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eyed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	shake	present	I	1020		my ringlets obj	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ringlet=Patient
3	fall	present	the warm rain		the earth		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location
4	look up	present	the flowers			like children	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	eye	participle		children not said here	flowers's mother's bosom		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
6	bosom		flowers's mother				nom bosom «state 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 95

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 95