Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 3
Hah!--hah!" laughed the crow derisive, In the pine-top, at their folly,-- Laughed and jeered the silly lovers.
Who acts: Hah · What happens: laugh, jeer · To what, where: crow, pine top, silly lovers
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 (Hah), 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 | Hah | Hah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hah | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 hah | punct |
| 4 | hah | hah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 hah | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hah | punct |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crow | det |
| 9 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | obj |
| 10 | derisive | derisive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 laughed | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 top | punct |
| 12 | In | in | ADP | _ | 16 top | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 top | det |
| 14 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 top | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 pine | punct |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 folly | punct |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 folly | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 folly | nmod:poss |
| 20 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 top | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Laughed | punct |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 Laughed | punct |
| 23 | Laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughed | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 jeered | cc |
| 25 | jeered | jeer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Laughed | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lovers | det |
| 27 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lovers | amod |
| 28 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 jeered | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | past | Hah | the crow | the pine top and top's folly | hah nsubj; derisive property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Theme | ||
| 2 | laugh in a quote | past | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | jeer in a quote | past | the silly lovers | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Theme |
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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