Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 79
The pink and gold in blooming wold,--the green hills mirrored in the lake!
Who acts: pink gold · What happens: bloom, mirror · To what, where: wold, green hills, lake, pink gold
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 (pink gold), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gold | det |
| 2 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gold | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gold | cc |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 blooming | mark |
| 6 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 gold | acl |
| 7 | wold | wold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blooming | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gold | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 hills | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hills | det |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hills | amod |
| 12 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gold | conj |
| 13 | mirrored | mirror | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hills | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 lake | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lake | det |
| 16 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mirrored | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 gold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | gerund | the pink gold and the green hills not said here | wold | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location wold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mirror | participle | the green hills not said here | the lake | tree rules |
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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