Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 26
If the Sea-Gull hear the wailing Of her infant she will answer."
Who acts: Sea Gull, Gull · What happens: hear, answer · To what, where: wailing
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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Gull | det |
| 3 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gull | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sea | punct |
| 5 | Gull | Gull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 answer | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wailing | det |
| 8 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obj |
| 9 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 11 infant | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 infant | nmod:poss |
| 11 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wailing | nmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answer | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 answer | aux |
| 14 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answer | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | the Sea Gull | the wailing of Gull's infant | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wailing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | future | Gull | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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