Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 11
So she swung above the waters-- Dizzy height above the waters, Pushed and aided by her rival, To and fro with reckless daring, Till the strong tree rocked and trembled, Rocked and trembled with its burden.
Who acts: danger, rival · What happens: swing, push, aid, fro, rock, tremble · To what, where: Dizzy height, waters, strong tree
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 (danger, rival), 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 | _ | 3 swung | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swung | nsubj |
| 3 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | above | above | ADP | _ | 6 waters | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 waters | det |
| 6 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swung | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 height | punct |
| 8 | Dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 height | amod |
| 9 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swung | obl |
| 10 | above | above | ADP | _ | 12 waters | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 waters | det |
| 12 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 height | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Pushed | punct |
| 14 | Pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 height | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 aided | cc |
| 16 | aided | aid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Pushed | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 rival | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 rival | nmod:poss |
| 19 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 aided | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 To | punct |
| 21 | To | To | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 height | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fro | cc |
| 23 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 swung | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 daring | case |
| 25 | reckless | reckless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 daring | amod |
| 26 | daring | daring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fro | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 tree | punct |
| 28 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 31 tree | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tree | det |
| 30 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tree | amod |
| 31 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swung | parataxis |
| 32 | rocked | rock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 tree | acl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 trembled | cc |
| 34 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 rocked | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Rocked | punct |
| 36 | Rocked | rock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 rocked | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 trembled | cc |
| 38 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 Rocked | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 burden | case |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 burden | nmod:poss |
| 41 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 trembled | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past | danger | Dizzy height above the waters and To | the waters | the strong tree parataxis | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme above water=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | push | participle | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | aid | participle | by danger's rival | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fro | infinitive | danger not said here | with reckless daring | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rock | participle | the strong tree not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | tremble | participle | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | rock | participle | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | tremble | participle | with rival's burden | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | burden | rival | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=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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