Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 39
Thus she spoke and in the twinkling Of a star the spirit-woman Changed into a snow-white sea-gull, Spread her wings and o'er the waters Swiftly flew and swiftly vanished.
Who acts: orphan · What happens: speak, change, spread, fly, vanish · To what, where: spirit woman, white sea gull, wings, twinkling · 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 (orphan), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Spread | cc |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 twinkling | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 twinkling | det |
| 7 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Spread | obl |
| 8 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 10 star | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 star | det |
| 10 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 twinkling | nmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 12 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 woman | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 spirit | punct |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 star | appos |
| 15 | Changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 woman | acl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 gull | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 gull | det |
| 18 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 white | obl |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 snow | punct |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gull | amod |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gull | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 sea | punct |
| 23 | gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Changed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 twinkling | punct |
| 25 | Spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wings | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Spread | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 flew | cc |
| 29 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 31 waters | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 waters | det |
| 31 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 flew | obl |
| 32 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 33 flew | advmod |
| 33 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 vanished | cc |
| 35 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 36 vanished | advmod |
| 36 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 flew | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | orphan | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | change | participle | the spirit woman not said here | into a white sea gull result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into gull=Result | ||||
| 3 | spread | past | orphan not said here | orphan's wings | the twinkling of a star | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wing=Theme in twinkling=Destination | |||
| 4 | fly | past | orphan not said here | o'er the waters; swiftly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | vanish | past | orphan not said here | swiftly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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