Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 22
High at midnight I beheld her-- Like a flying star beheld her-- To the waves of Gitchee Gumee, Downward flashing through the ether.
Who acts: High midnight · What happens: behold, fly, flash, wave · To what, where: Raven, ether, Gitchee
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 (High midnight), 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 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 midnight | amod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 midnight | case |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beheld | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 beheld | nsubj |
| 5 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beheld | obj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 beheld | punct |
| 8 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 11 star | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 star | det |
| 10 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 star | amod |
| 11 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beheld | obl |
| 12 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beheld | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 beheld | obj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 waves | punct |
| 15 | To | to | ADP | _ | 17 waves | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 waves | det |
| 17 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beheld | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Gitchee | case |
| 19 | Gitchee | Gitchee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 waves | nmod |
| 20 | Gumee | Gumee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Gitchee | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flashing | punct |
| 22 | Downward | downward | ADV | _ | 23 flashing | advmod |
| 23 | flashing | flash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 beheld | advcl |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 ether | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ether | det |
| 26 | ether | ether | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flashing | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | High midnight | Raven | I nsubj | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | behold | past | High midnight not said here | Raven | like a flying star; to the waves of Gitchee | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | flash | gerund | High midnight not said here | the ether | downward property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through ether=Location | |||
| 5 | wave | Gitchee | nom wave «event 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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