Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 58

Then the Red Fox saw the Sea-Gull-- Saw the dead a living woman, One wild cry she gave despairing, One wild cry as of a demon.

Who acts: Red Fox, Fox · What happens: see, give, despair · To what, where: Sea Gull, dead living woman, One wild cry

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 (Red Fox, Fox), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fox	det
3	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fox	flat
4	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Gull	det
7	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Gull	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Sea	punct
9	Gull	Gull	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 Saw	punct
11	Saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Saw	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cry	punct
18	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 cry	nummod
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cry	amod
20	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 woman	appos
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cry	acl:relcl
23	despairing	despair	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 gave	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cry	punct
25	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 cry	nummod
26	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cry	amod
27	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 despairing	obl
28	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	31 demon	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 as	fixed
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 demon	det
31	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cry	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	see	past	the Red Fox	the Sea Gull	then	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gull=Stimulus
2	see	past	the Red Fox not said here	the dead living woman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	give	past	Fox	One wild cry not said here		tree rules
4	despair	gerund	Fox not said here	One wild cry as a demon		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 58