Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 66
To the far-off Sunny Islands-- To the Summer-Land of Spirits, Where no more the happy hunter Feels the fangs of frost or famine, Or the keen blasts of Kewâydin.
Who acts: Summer Land · What happens: feel, blast · To what, where: fangs, Kewâydin
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 (Summer Land), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 7 Islands | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Islands | det |
| 3 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Islands | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 Islands | case |
| 6 | Sunny | Sunny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Islands | compound |
| 7 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 Feels | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 Land | punct |
| 9 | To | to | ADP | _ | 13 Land | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Land | det |
| 11 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Land | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Summer | punct |
| 13 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Feels | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Spirits | case |
| 15 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Land | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 more | punct |
| 17 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 more | advmod |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 Spirits | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hunter | det |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hunter | amod |
| 22 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 more | nsubj |
| 23 | Feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fangs | det |
| 25 | fangs | fang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Feels | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 frost | case |
| 27 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fangs | nmod |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 famine | cc |
| 29 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 frost | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 blasts | punct |
| 31 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 blasts | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 blasts | det |
| 33 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 blasts | amod |
| 34 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Feels | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Kewâydin | case |
| 36 | Kewâydin | Kewâydin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 blasts | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 Feels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | the Summer Land of Spirits | the fangs of frost or famine | to the far Sunny Islands; the keen blasts of Kewâydin conj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fang=Theme | |||
| 2 | blast | Kewâydin | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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