Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 56
For the waves of Gitchee Gumee Washed away the frost and wrinkles, And the Spirits by their magic Made her young and fair forever.
Who acts: Spirits · What happens: wash away, make, wave · To what, where: frost, Gitchee
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 (Spirits), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 waves | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 waves | det |
| 3 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Washed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Gitchee | case |
| 5 | Gitchee | Gitchee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 waves | nmod |
| 6 | Gumee | Gumee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gitchee | flat |
| 7 | Washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 Washed | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 frost | det |
| 10 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Washed | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wrinkles | cc |
| 12 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 frost | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Made | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Made | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Spirits | det |
| 16 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Made | nsubj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 magic | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 magic | nmod:poss |
| 19 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Spirits | nmod |
| 20 | Made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Washed | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 Made | obj |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Made | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fair | cc |
| 24 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 young | conj |
| 25 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 24 fair | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash away | past | the frost and wrinkles | for the waves of Gitchee; away property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent frost=Patient for wave=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the Spirits by spirits's magic | Gitchee | young property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | |||
| 3 | wave | Gitchee | nom wave «event transitive»: of=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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