Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 1
So from Sunny Isles returning, From the Summer-Land of spirits, On the poles of Panther's wigwam Sang Opeé-chee--sang the robin.
Who acts: Sunny Isles · What happens: return, sing · To what, where: Summer Land, robin
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sunny Isles), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 27 sang | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Isles | case |
| 3 | Sunny | Sunny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Isles | compound |
| 4 | Isles | Isle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 sang | nsubj |
| 5 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Isles | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Land | punct |
| 7 | From | from | ADP | _ | 11 Land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Land | det |
| 9 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Land | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Summer | punct |
| 11 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returning | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 spirits | case |
| 13 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Land | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 poles | punct |
| 15 | On | on | ADP | _ | 17 poles | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 poles | det |
| 17 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 returning | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wigwam | case |
| 19 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Panther | case |
| 21 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 poles | nmod |
| 22 | Sang | Sang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wigwam | appos |
| 23 | Opeé | Opeé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Sang | flat |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 chee | punct |
| 25 | chee | chee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Sang | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 Isles | punct |
| 27 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 robin | det |
| 29 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sang | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | Sunny Isles not said here | the Summer Land of spirits | on the poles of Panther's wigwam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | Sunny Isles | the robin | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location robin=Theme |
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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