Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 7
Laughing at the thought of danger, Swung and fluttered o'er the waters.
What happens: laugh, swing, flutter, think · To what, where: thought, danger
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: 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 | Laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 thought | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thought | det |
| 4 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Laughing | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 danger | case |
| 6 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Swung | punct |
| 8 | Swung | swing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 danger | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fluttered | cc |
| 10 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Swung | conj |
| 11 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 13 waters | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 waters | det |
| 13 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fluttered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Laughing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | the thought of danger | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | swing | participle | danger not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | flutter | participle | o'er the waters | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | think | danger | nom thought «cognition 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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