Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 102
And sometimes, too, the light canoe glides like a shadow o'er the deep At midnight, when the moon is low, and all the shores are hushed in sleep.
Who acts: light canoe, moon · What happens: glide, be, hush · To what, where: shores, sleep
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 (light canoe, moon), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 glides | cc |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 glides | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 glides | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 glides | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 glides | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 canoe | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 canoe | compound |
| 8 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glides | nsubj |
| 9 | glides | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 shadow | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shadow | det |
| 12 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glides | obl |
| 13 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 15 deep | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 deep | det |
| 15 | deep | deep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glides | obl |
| 16 | At | at | ADP | _ | 17 midnight | case |
| 17 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glides | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 low | punct |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 low | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moon | det |
| 21 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 low | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 low | cop |
| 23 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 glides | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hushed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hushed | cc |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 shores | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shores | det |
| 28 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 hushed | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 hushed | aux:pass |
| 30 | hushed | hush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 low | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 sleep | case |
| 32 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hushed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 glides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | present | the light canoe | midnight | like a shadow; o'er the deep; sometimes property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | the moon | low property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hush | present · passive | all shores | sleep | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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