Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 108
Alas--Alas!--for all things pass; and we shall vanish, too, as they; We build our monuments of brass, and granite, but they waste away.
Who acts: things, we · What happens: pass, vanish, build, waste away · To what, where: monuments
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 (things, we), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 9 pass | discourse |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 1 Alas | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 pass | mark |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pass | nsubj |
| 9 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 vanish | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vanish | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 vanish | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 vanish | aux |
| 14 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pass | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 too | punct |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 vanish | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 they | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 they | case |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 vanish | advcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 build | punct |
| 21 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 build | nsubj |
| 22 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pass | advcl |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 monuments | nmod:poss |
| 24 | monuments | monument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 build | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 brass | case |
| 26 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 monuments | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 granite | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 granite | cc |
| 29 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 build | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 waste | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 waste | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 waste | nsubj |
| 33 | waste | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pass | parataxis |
| 34 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 waste | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | all things | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | vanish | shall | we | things = thing advcl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | present | We | our monuments of brass | granite obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monument=Product | |||
| 4 | waste away | present | things = thing | away property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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