Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 6

She fastened Thongs of moose-hide to the pine-tree, To the strong arm of the pine-tree. like a hawk, above the waters, There she swung herself and fluttered,

Who acts: crow · What happens: fasten, swing, flutter · To what, where: Thongs, waters, crow

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 (crow), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fastened	nsubj
2	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Thongs	thong	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fastened	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 hide	case
5	moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 moose	punct
7	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Thongs	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
10	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 pine	punct
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 arm	punct
14	To	to	ADP	_	17 arm	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 arm	det
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 arm	amod
17	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fastened	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
20	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 pine	punct
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 arm	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 tree	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 hawk	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hawk	det
26	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 waters	punct
28	above	above	ADP	_	30 waters	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 waters	det
30	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fastened	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 swung	punct
32	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 swung	expl
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 swung	nsubj
34	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fastened	parataxis
35	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 swung	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fluttered	cc
37	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 swung	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fasten	past	crow	Thongs of moose hide to the pine tree	the waters	to the strong arm of the pine tree like a hawk	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent thong=Patient to arm=Co-Patient
2	swing	past	crow	crow	there		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
3	flutter	participle	crow not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 6