Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 18
Sea-Gull wanders late" said Red Fox, "Late she wanders by the sea-shore, And some evil may befall her."
Who acts: Sea Gull, Gull, evil · What happens: wander, say, befall · To what, where: Red Fox, Fox · 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 Gull, Gull, evil), 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 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Gull | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sea | punct |
| 3 | Gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanders | nsubj |
| 4 | wanders | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 late | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanders | ccomp |
| 8 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Fox | compound |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wanders | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Late | punct |
| 12 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 wanders | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wanders | nsubj |
| 14 | wanders | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanders | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 shore | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shore | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shore | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sea | punct |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wanders | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 befall | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 befall | cc |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 evil | det |
| 23 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 befall | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 befall | aux |
| 25 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanders | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 befall | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 befall | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 befall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | present | Sea Gull | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Sea Gull not said here | Red Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wander | present | Gull | by the sea shore; late property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by shore=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | befall | may | some evil | Fox | tree rules |
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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