Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 53

Very angry was the Spirit; When he drew the chain of silver, Drew and found that it was broken, Found that he had lost the woman, Very angry was the Spirit.

Who acts: Sprang, woman · What happens: be, draw, find, break, lose · To what, where: chain, silver, Spirit · 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 (Sprang, woman), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 angry	advmod
2	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 angry	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Spirit	det
5	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 drew	punct
7	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 drew	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drew	nsubj
9	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 angry	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chain	det
11	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drew	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 silver	case
13	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chain	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Drew	punct
15	Drew	Drew	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 chain	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 found	cc
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drew	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 broken	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 broken	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 broken	aux:pass
21	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 found	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Found	punct
23	Found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drew	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 lost	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lost	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lost	aux
27	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 Found	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Spirit	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 angry	punct
31	Very	very	ADV	_	32 angry	advmod
32	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	conj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 Spirit	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Spirit	det
35	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 lost	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			angry property	tree rules
2	draw	past	Sprang	the chain of silver		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme
3	find	past	Sprang not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	break	past · passive		silver		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	find	past	Sprang not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	lose	past · perfect	Sprang			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	the woman	the Spirit		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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 53