Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 41
Sad and sullen was the hunter; Sorrow gnawed his heart like hunger; All the old love came upon him, And the new love was a hatred.
Who acts: Sad hunter, old love, new love · What happens: be, gnaw, come · To what, where: Sad hunter, heart, hatred
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 (Sad hunter, old love, new love), 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 | Sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hunter | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sullen | cc |
| 3 | sullen | sullen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sad | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hunter | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hunter | det |
| 6 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gnawed | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 gnawed | punct |
| 8 | Sorrow | Sorrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gnawed | nsubj |
| 9 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gnawed | obj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 hunger | case |
| 13 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gnawed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 15 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 love | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 love | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 love | amod |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gnawed | conj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hatred | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hatred | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 love | det |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 love | amod |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hatred | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 hatred | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hatred | det |
| 29 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gnawed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Sad hunter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gnaw | past | the Sad hunter | Sorrow's heart | like hunger; Sorrow nsubj | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||
| 3 | come | past | all old love | upon Sorrow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the new love | a hatred | tree rules |
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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