Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 28
From afar where sky and waters Meet in misty haze and mingle, Straight toward the rocky highland, Straight as flies die feathered arrow, Straight to Raven and the infant Swiftly flew a snow white sea-gull.-- Flew and touched the earth a woman.
Who acts: sky, flies, feathered arrow, snow · What happens: meet, mingle, die, fly, gull, touch · To what, where: Flew, afar, earth
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 (sky, flies, feathered arrow, snow), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 afar | case |
| 2 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Meet | obl |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 Meet | advmod |
| 4 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Meet | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 waters | cc |
| 6 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sky | conj |
| 7 | Meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 haze | case |
| 9 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 haze | amod |
| 10 | haze | haze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Meet | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mingle | cc |
| 12 | mingle | mingle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Meet | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 highland | punct |
| 14 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 18 highland | advmod |
| 15 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 18 highland | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 highland | det |
| 17 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 highland | amod |
| 18 | highland | highland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Meet | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Straight | punct |
| 20 | Straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 highland | amod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 die | mark |
| 22 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 die | nsubj |
| 23 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Straight | advcl |
| 24 | feathered | feathered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 arrow | amod |
| 25 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 flew | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Raven | punct |
| 27 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 29 Raven | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Raven | case |
| 29 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 flew | nsubj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 infant | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 infant | det |
| 32 | infant | infant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Raven | conj |
| 33 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 34 flew | advmod |
| 34 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 die | ccomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 gull | det |
| 36 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gull | nsubj |
| 37 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 gull | amod |
| 38 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gull | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 sea | punct |
| 40 | gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 flew | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 highland | punct |
| 42 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 43 Flew | punct |
| 43 | Flew | Flew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Meet | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 touched | cc |
| 45 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Meet | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 earth | det |
| 47 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 touched | obj |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 woman | det |
| 49 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 touched | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | sky and waters | Flew | afar | in misty haze; toward the rocky highland | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | mingle | infinitive | sky and waters not said here | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | die | present | flies | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fly | past | feathered arrow | Raven and the infant nsubj; swiftly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | gull | snow | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | touch | past | sky and waters not said here | the earth | a woman obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus earth=Experiencer woman=Result |
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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