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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 54

Then he raged beneath the waters, Raged and smote the mighty waters, Till the big sea boiled and bubbled, Till the white-haired, bounding billows Roared around the rocky head-lands, Roared and plashed upon the shingle.

Who acts: Sprang · What happens: rage, smote, boil, bubble, bound, roar · To what, where: waters, mighty waters, big sea, billows, rocky head lands, shingle

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), 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

advmodnsubjcasedetoblpunctconjccconjdetamodobjpunctcasedetamodconjaclccconjpunctmarkdetamodpunctconjpunctadvclobjaclcasedetamodcompoundpunctoblpunctaclccconjcasedetoblpunctrootThenADVhePRONragedVERBbeneathADPtheDETwatersNOUN,PUNCTRagedVERBandCCONJsmoteVERBtheDETmightyADJwatersNOUN,PUNCTTillADPtheDETbigADJseaNOUNboiledVERBandCCONJbubbledVERB,PUNCTTillSCONJtheDETwhiteADJ-PUNCThairedADJ,PUNCTboundingVERBbillowsNOUNRoaredVERBaroundADPtheDETrockyADJheadNOUN-PUNCTlandsNOUN,PUNCTRoaredVERBandCCONJplashedVERBuponADPtheDETshingleNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 ragedadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 ragednsubj
3ragedrageVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4beneathbeneathADP_6 waterscase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 watersdet
6waterswaterNOUNNumber=Plur3 ragedobl
7,,PUNCT_8 Ragedpunct
8RagedrageVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 ragedconj
9andandCCONJ_10 smotecc
10smotesmoteVERBVerbForm=Inf8 Ragedconj
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 watersdet
12mightymightyADJDegree=Pos13 watersamod
13waterswaterNOUNNumber=Plur10 smoteobj
14,,PUNCT_18 seapunct
15TilltillADP_18 seacase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 seadet
17bigbigADJDegree=Pos18 seaamod
18seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing10 smoteconj
19boiledboilVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 seaacl
20andandCCONJ_21 bubbledcc
21bubbledbubbleVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 boiledconj
22,,PUNCT_27 hairedpunct
23TilltillSCONJ_27 hairedmark
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 haireddet
25whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos27 hairedamod
26--PUNCT_25 whitepunct
27hairedhairedADJDegree=Pos19 boiledconj
28,,PUNCT_29 boundingpunct
29boundingboundVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part27 hairedadvcl
30billowsbillowNOUNNumber=Plur29 boundingobj
31RoaredroarVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass30 billowsacl
32aroundaroundADP_37 landscase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 landsdet
34rockyrockyADJDegree=Pos37 landsamod
35headheadNOUNNumber=Sing37 landscompound
36--PUNCT_35 headpunct
37landslandNOUNNumber=Plur31 Roaredobl
38,,PUNCT_39 Roaredpunct
39RoaredroarVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass37 landsacl
40andandCCONJ_41 plashedcc
41plashedplashVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass39 Roaredconj
42uponuponADP_44 shinglecase
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 shingledet
44shingleshingleNOUNNumber=Sing41 plashedobl
45..PUNCT_3 ragedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ragepastSprangthe watersthenvn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath water=Location
2rageparticipleSprang not said herevn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3smoteinfinitiveSprang not said herethe mighty watersthe big sea conjtree rules
4boilparticiplethe big sea not said herevn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5bubbleparticiplevn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
6boundgerundbillowsvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location billow=Theme
7roarparticiplebillows not said herethe rocky head landsvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around land=Location
8roarparticiplethe rocky head lands not said herevn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9plashparticiplethe shinglevn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shingle=Location

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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