Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 10

To herself said Sea-Gull--"Surely I will dare whatever danger Dares the Red Fox--dares my rival; She shall never call me coward."

Who acts: Sea, danger · What happens: say, dare, not call · To what, where: crow, whatever, rival, Sea · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sea, danger), 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 herself	case
2	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 said	obl
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Gull	punct
6	Gull	Gull	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sea	conj
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 dare	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 dare	punct
9	Surely	surely	ADV	_	12 dare	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 dare	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 dare	aux
12	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
13	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 Dares	obj
14	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Dares	nsubj
15	Dares	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dare	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Fox	det
17	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Fox	amod
18	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Dares	obj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 dares	punct
20	dares	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Dares	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 rival	nmod:poss
22	rival	rival	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dares	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 call	punct
24	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 call	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 call	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 call	advmod
27	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 call	obj
29	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 call	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 call	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sea and Gull		crow		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	dare in a quote	future	Sea and Gull = sea			surely property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	dare in a quote	present	danger	whatever		the Red Fox obj	tree rules
4	dare in a quote	present	danger not said here	my rival			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rival=Recipient
5	not call in a quote	shall	danger		Sea and Gull = sea	coward xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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 2, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 10