Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 59

Up she sprang and from the wigwam To the tall cliff flew in terror; Frantic sprang upon the margin, Frantic plunged into the water, Headlong plunged into the waters.

Who acts: Fox, Frantic, Headlong · What happens: spring, fly, plunge · To what, where: wigwam, margin, water, waters

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, Frantic, Headlong), 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	Up	up	ADV	_	3 sprang	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flew	cc
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 wigwam	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wigwam	det
7	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flew	obl
8	To	to	ADP	_	11 cliff	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cliff	det
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cliff	amod
11	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wigwam	nmod
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 terror	case
14	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flew	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sprang	punct
16	Frantic	frantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sprang	nsubj
17	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 margin	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 margin	det
20	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sprang	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Frantic	punct
22	Frantic	frantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sprang	conj
23	plunged	plunge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Frantic	acl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plunged	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 plunged	punct
28	Headlong	Headlong	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 plunged	nsubj
29	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 waters	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 waters	det
32	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 plunged	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	spring	past	Fox			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	past	Fox not said here	the wigwam to the tall cliff	in terror	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location
3	spring	past	Frantic	the margin		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon margin=Trajectory
4	plunge	participle		the water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
5	plunge	past	Headlong	the waters		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 59