Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 57
In the wigwam sat the Red Fox, Sat and sang a song of triumph, For she little dreamed of danger, Till the haughty hunter entered, Followed by the happy mother, Holding in her arms her infant.
Who acts: Fox, haughty hunter, triumph · What happens: sit, sing, dream, enter, follow, hold · To what, where: Red Fox, wigwam, song, infant, arms
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 (Fox, haughty hunter, triumph), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 wigwam | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wigwam | det |
| 3 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fox | det |
| 6 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fox | flat |
| 7 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sat | punct |
| 9 | Sat | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fox | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sang | cc |
| 11 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 song | det |
| 13 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sang | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 triumph | case |
| 15 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 song | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dreamed | punct |
| 17 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 dreamed | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dreamed | nsubj |
| 19 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 dreamed | advmod |
| 20 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 danger | case |
| 22 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dreamed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 entered | punct |
| 24 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 28 entered | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hunter | det |
| 26 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hunter | amod |
| 27 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 entered | nsubj |
| 28 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dreamed | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Followed | punct |
| 30 | Followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 entered | advcl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 mother | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 mother | det |
| 33 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 mother | amod |
| 34 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Followed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Holding | punct |
| 36 | Holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 Followed | advcl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 arms | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 arms | nmod:poss |
| 39 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 Holding | obl |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 infant | nmod:poss |
| 41 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Holding | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Red Fox and Sat | the wigwam | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme in wigwam=Location | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | a song of triumph | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dream | past | Fox | of danger; little property | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | enter | past | the haughty hunter | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | follow | participle | the haughty hunter not said here | by the happy mother | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mother=Location | ||||
| 6 | hold | gerund | the haughty hunter not said here | hunter's infant | hunter's arms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent infant=Theme in arm=Location | |||
| 7 | sing | triumph | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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