Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 100

For oft at night I see the light of lodge-fires on the shadowy shores, And hear the wail some maiden's sprite above her slaughtered warrior pours.

Who acts: I, sprite · What happens: see, hear, slaughter, light · To what, where: light, wail, warrior pours, lodge fires

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 (I, sprite), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 oft	case
2	oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 see	obl
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 fires	case
10	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fires	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 lodge	punct
12	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 light	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 shores	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shores	det
15	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shores	amod
16	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fires	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hear	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 hear	cc
19	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 see	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wail	det
21	wail	wail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hear	obj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 sprite	det
23	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sprite	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 maiden	case
25	sprite	sprite	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 slaughtered	nsubj
26	above	above	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sprite	nmod
28	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wail	acl:relcl
29	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pours	compound
30	pours	pour	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 slaughtered	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	I	the light of lodge fires on the shadowy shores	night	for oft	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
2	hear	infinitive	I not said here	the wail			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wail=Stimulus
3	slaughter	past	maiden's sprite above shore	warrior pours			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pour=Patient
4	light			lodge fires on the shadowy shores			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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 100

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 100