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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 98

Then old Péboân looked upon him, Looked and knew Según, the Summer, From his eyes the big tears started And his boastful tongue was silent.

Who acts: old Péboân, big tears, boastful tongue · What happens: look, know, start, be · To what, where: Según, eyes

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, big tears, boastful tongue), 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

advmodamodnsubjcaseoblpunctconjccconjobjpunctdetnmod:unmarkedpunctcasenmod:possobldetamodnsubjparataxisccnmod:possamodnsubjcopconjpunctrootThenADVoldADJPéboânPROPNlookedVERBuponADPhimPRON,PUNCTLookedVERBandCCONJknewVERBSegúnPROPN,PUNCTtheDETSummerPROPN,PUNCTFromADPhisPRONeyesNOUNtheDETbigADJtearsNOUNstartedVERBAndCCONJhisPRONboastfulADJtongueNOUNwasAUXsilentADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem4 lookedadvmod
2oldoldADJDegree=Pos3 Péboânamod
3PéboânPéboânPROPNNumber=Sing4 lookednsubj
4lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5uponuponADP_6 himcase
6himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 lookedobl
7,,PUNCT_8 Lookedpunct
8LookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 lookedconj
9andandCCONJ_10 knewcc
10knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 Lookedconj
11SegúnSegúnPROPNNumber=Sing10 knewobj
12,,PUNCT_14 Summerpunct
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 Summerdet
14SummerSummerPROPNNumber=Sing11 Segúnnmod:unmarked
15,,PUNCT_22 startedpunct
16FromfromADP_18 eyescase
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 eyesnmod:poss
18eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur22 startedobl
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 tearsdet
20bigbigADJDegree=Pos21 tearsamod
21tearstearNOUNNumber=Plur22 startednsubj
22startedstartVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 knewparataxis
23AndandCCONJ_28 silentcc
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 tonguenmod:poss
25boastfulboastfulADJDegree=Pos26 tongueamod
26tonguetongueNOUNNumber=Sing28 silentnsubj
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 silentcop
28silentsilentADJDegree=Pos22 startedconj
29..PUNCT_4 lookedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lookpastold Péboânthenupon birdvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme
2lookpastold Péboân not said herevn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3knowpastold Péboân not said hereSegún the Summervn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer según=Stimulus
4startpastthe big tearsPéboân's eyesvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5ispastPéboân's boastful tonguesilent propertytree rules

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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