Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 82

The crimsoned west glows like the breast of _Rhuddin_ [a] when he pipes in May, As downward droops the sun to rest, and shadows gather on the bay.

Who acts: crimsoned west, west, downward, shadows · What happens: crimson, glow, pipe, droop, rest, gather · To what, where: sun, bay

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 (crimsoned west, west, downward, shadows), 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 west	det
2	crimsoned	crimson	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 west	amod
3	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glows	nsubj
4	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 breast	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 breast	det
7	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glows	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Rhuddin	case
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 of	punct
10	Rhuddin	Rhuddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 breast	nmod
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 glows	punct
12	[	[	PUNCT	_	15 when	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 when	det
14	]	]	PUNCT	_	15 when	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 glows	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pipes	nsubj
17	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 when	nsubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 May	case
19	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 pipes	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 droops	punct
21	As	as	SCONJ	_	23 droops	mark
22	downward	downward	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 droops	nsubj
23	droops	droop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 pipes	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sun	det
25	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 droops	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 rest	mark
27	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sun	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gather	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gather	cc
30	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 gather	nsubj
31	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 droops	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 bay	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bay	det
34	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gather	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crimson	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	glow	present	the crimsoned west				like the breast of Rhuddin	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pipe		west			may		tree rules
4	droop	present	downward	the sun				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun=Theme
5	rest	to-infinitive	downward not said here	the sun not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	gather	present	shadows		the bay			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 82

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 82