Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 61
There upon her bloated body Fed the cawing crows and ravens, Fed the hungry wolves and foxes.
Who acts: bloated body, cawing crows · What happens: bloat, feed · To what, where: cawing crows, hungry wolves
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 (bloated body, cawing crows), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 Fed | expl |
| 2 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 6 Fed | mark |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 body | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bloated | bloat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 body | amod |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fed | nsubj |
| 6 | Fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crows | det |
| 8 | cawing | cawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crows | compound |
| 9 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Fed | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ravens | cc |
| 11 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crows | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Fed | punct |
| 13 | Fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 crows | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wolves | det |
| 15 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wolves | amod |
| 16 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Fed | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 foxes | cc |
| 18 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wolves | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloat | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | feed | participle | Fox's bloated body | the cawing crows and ravens | there | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Recipient | |||
| 3 | feed | participle | the cawing crows and ravens not said here | the hungry wolves and foxes | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient |
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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