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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 69

On the rocks of Gitchee Gumee-- On the Pictured Rocks--the Legend Long ago was traced and written, Pictured by the Water Spirits; But the storms of many winters Have bedimmed the pictured story, So that none can read the legend But the Jossakeeds, the prophets.

Who acts: storms, none, many winters · What happens: picture, trace, write, bedim, read, storm · To what, where: Legend Long, pictured story, legend, rocks

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 (storms, none, many winters), 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

casedetcasenmodflatpunctcasedetamodconjpunctdetcompoundnsubj:passadvmodaux:passparataxisccconjpunctconjcasedetcompoundoblpunctccdetnsubjcaseamodnmodauxparataxisdetamodobjpunctadvmodmarknsubjauxadvcldetobjccdetconjpunctdetconjpunctrootOnADPtheDETrocksNOUNofADPGitcheePROPNGumeePROPN--PUNCTOnADPtheDETPicturedVERBRocksNOUN--PUNCTtheDETLegendPROPNLongADJagoADVwasAUXtracedVERBandCCONJwrittenVERB,PUNCTPicturedVERBbyADPtheDETWaterPROPNSpiritsNOUN;PUNCTButCCONJtheDETstormsNOUNofADPmanyADJwintersNOUNHaveAUXbedimmedVERBtheDETpicturedVERBstoryNOUN,PUNCTSoADVthatSCONJnonePRONcanAUXreadVERBtheDETlegendNOUNButCCONJtheDETJossakeedsPROPN,PUNCTtheDETprophetsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnonADP_3 rockscase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 rocksdet
3rocksrockNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
4ofofADP_5 Gitcheecase
5GitcheeGitcheePROPNNumber=Sing3 rocksnmod
6GumeeGumeePROPNNumber=Sing5 Gitcheeflat
7----PUNCT_11 Rockspunct
8OnonADP_11 Rockscase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Rocksdet
10PicturedpictureVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 Rocksamod
11RocksrockNOUNNumber=Plur3 rocksconj
12----PUNCT_18 tracedpunct
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 Longdet
14LegendLegendPROPNNumber=Sing15 Longcompound
15LongLongADJDegree=Pos18 tracednsubj:pass
16agoagoADV_18 tracedadvmod
17wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 tracedaux:pass
18tracedtraceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 Rocksparataxis
19andandCCONJ_20 writtencc
20writtenwriteVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 tracedconj
21,,PUNCT_22 Picturedpunct
22PicturedpictureVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 tracedconj
23bybyADP_26 Spiritscase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 Spiritsdet
25WaterWaterPROPNNumber=Sing26 Spiritscompound
26SpiritsspiritNOUNNumber=Plur22 Picturedobl
27;;PUNCT_35 bedimmedpunct
28ButbutCCONJ_35 bedimmedcc
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 stormsdet
30stormsstormNOUNNumber=Plur35 bedimmednsubj
31ofofADP_33 winterscase
32manymanyADJDegree=Pos33 wintersamod
33winterswinterNOUNNumber=Plur30 stormsnmod
34HavehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 bedimmedaux
35bedimmedbedimVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part3 rocksparataxis
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 storydet
37picturedpictureVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass38 storyamod
38storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing35 bedimmedobj
39,,PUNCT_44 readpunct
40SosoADV_44 readadvmod
41thatthatSCONJ_44 readmark
42nonenonePRONPronType=Neg44 readnsubj
43cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin44 readaux
44readreadVERBVerbForm=Inf35 bedimmedadvcl
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 legenddet
46legendlegendNOUNNumber=Sing44 readobj
47ButbutCCONJ_49 Jossakeedscc
48thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art49 Jossakeedsdet
49JossakeedsJossakeedPROPNNumber=Plur46 legendconj
50,,PUNCT_52 prophetspunct
51thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art52 prophetsdet
52prophetsprophetNOUNNumber=Plur46 legendconj
53..PUNCT_3 rockspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1pictureparticiplevn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
2tracepast · passivethe Legend Longago propertyvn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3writeparticiplevn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4pictureparticipleby the Water Spiritsvn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
5bedimpresent · perfectthe storms of many wintersthe pictured storytree rules
6pictureparticiplevn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
7readcannonethe legend but the Jossakeeds and the prophetsvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Topic
9stormmany wintersnom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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