Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 4
Blind with love were they, and saw not; Deaf to all but love, and heard not; So they cooed and wooed unheeding, Till the gray hawk pounced upon them, And the old crow shook with laughter.
Who acts: you, lovers, old crow · What happens: blind, be, not see, not hear, coo, woo · To what, where: lovers, unheeding, gray hawk
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 (you, lovers, old crow), 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 | Blind | blind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 love | case |
| 3 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blind | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 they | cop |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Blind | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Blind | parataxis |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 saw | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 Deaf | punct |
| 11 | Deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 Deaf | obl |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 love | cc |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Deaf | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 heard | cc |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 heard | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 cooed | punct |
| 21 | So | so | ADV | _ | 23 cooed | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 cooed | nsubj |
| 23 | cooed | coo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Blind | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wooed | cc |
| 25 | wooed | woo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 cooed | conj |
| 26 | unheeding | unheeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wooed | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hawk | punct |
| 28 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 31 hawk | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hawk | det |
| 30 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 hawk | amod |
| 31 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wooed | obl |
| 32 | pounced | pounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 hawk | acl |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 pounced | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 shook | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 shook | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 crow | det |
| 38 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 crow | amod |
| 39 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 shook | nsubj |
| 40 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 cooed | conj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 laughter | case |
| 42 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 shook | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Blind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blind | imperative | you not said here | with love | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | lovers = lover | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not see | past | deaf property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not hear | past | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | coo | past | lovers = lover | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | woo | past | lovers = lover not said here | unheeding | till the gray hawk | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unheeding=Patient | |||
| 7 | pounce | participle | the gray hawk not said here | upon lovers = lover | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | shake | past | the old crow | with laughter | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with laughter=Co-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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