Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 84

In amber sky the swallows fly, and sail and circle o'er the deep; The light-winged night-hawks whir and cry; the silver pike and salmon leap.

Who acts: swallows, winged night hawks · What happens: fly, wing, whir, cry · To what, where: sail, amber sky

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 (swallows, winged night hawks), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 sky	case
2	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sky	compound
3	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fly	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swallows	det
5	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fly	nsubj
6	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sail	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sail	cc
9	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fly	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 circle	cc
11	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sail	conj
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	9 sail	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 whir	punct
16	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hawks	det
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 winged	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 light	punct
19	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 hawks	amod
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hawks	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 night	punct
22	hawks	hawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 whir	nsubj
23	whir	whir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fly	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cry	cc
25	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 whir	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 pike	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pike	det
28	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pike	amod
29	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fly	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 leap	cc
31	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 leap	compound
32	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pike	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	present	the swallows	sail o'er the deep and circle	amber sky	the silver pike and salmon leap obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location
2	wing	participle				light compound	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	whir	present	the winged night hawks				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	cry speech: express	present	the winged night hawks not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 84

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 84