Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 45
All in vain her fond caresses On the Panther now she lavished; When she smiled his face was sullen, When she laughed he frowned upon her; In her net of raven tresses Now no more she held him tangled.
Who acts: All, Oge, face, Panther · What happens: lavish, smile, be, laugh, frown, tress · To what, where: net, Panther
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 (All, Oge, face, Panther), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 lavished | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 caresses | case |
| 3 | vain | vain | ADP | _ | 6 caresses | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 caresses | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 caresses | amod |
| 6 | caresses | caress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 All | nmod |
| 7 | On | on | ADP | _ | 9 Panther | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Panther | det |
| 9 | Panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caresses | nmod |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 lavished | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lavished | nsubj |
| 12 | lavished | lavish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 smiled | punct |
| 14 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 smiled | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 smiled | nsubj |
| 16 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lavished | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sullen | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sullen | cop |
| 20 | sullen | sullen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 smiled | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 laughed | punct |
| 22 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 laughed | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 laughed | nsubj |
| 24 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sullen | conj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 frowned | nsubj |
| 26 | frowned | frown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 laughed | ccomp |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 frowned | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 tresses | punct |
| 30 | In | in | ADP | _ | 32 net | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 net | nmod:poss |
| 32 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tresses | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 raven | case |
| 34 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 net | nmod |
| 35 | tresses | tress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 smiled | conj |
| 36 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 tresses | advmod |
| 37 | no | no | ADV | _ | 38 more | advmod |
| 38 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 held | advmod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 held | nsubj |
| 40 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 tresses | advcl |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 held | obj |
| 42 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 held | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lavished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lavish | past | All in Oge's fond caresses on the Panther | now | Oge nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | smile | past | Oge | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Panther's face | sullen property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | laugh | past | Oge | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | frown | past | Panther | upon Oge | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | tress | present | Oge not said here | Oge's net of raven | now | tree rules | |||
| 7 | hold | past | Oge | Panther | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | tangle | participle | Oge not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | caress | Oge | the Panther | nom caress «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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