Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 81
The maples screen the ferns, and lean the leafy lindens o'er the deep; The sapphire, set in emerald green, lies like an Orient gem asleep.
Who acts: maples screen, sapphire · What happens: lean, set, lie · To what, where: leafy lindens, sapphire, emerald
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 (maples screen, sapphire), 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 | 3 screen | det |
| 2 | maples | maple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 screen | compound |
| 3 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lean | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ferns | det |
| 5 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 screen | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lean | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lean | cc |
| 8 | lean | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lindens | det |
| 10 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lindens | amod |
| 11 | lindens | linden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lean | obj |
| 12 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 14 deep | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 deep | det |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lean | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sapphire | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sapphire | det |
| 17 | sapphire | sapphire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lies | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 sapphire | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 emerald | case |
| 21 | emerald | emerald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 set | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lies | punct |
| 24 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lean | parataxis |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 gem | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 gem | det |
| 27 | Orient | orient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 gem | amod |
| 28 | gem | gem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lies | obl |
| 29 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 gem | amod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean | infinitive | the maples screen and the ferns | the leafy lindens | o'er the deep | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location linden=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | participle | the sapphire not said here | emerald | green property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in emerald=Destination | |||
| 3 | lie | present | the sapphire | like a Orient gem | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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