Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 85
The rising moon, the woods aboon, looks laughing down on lake and lea; Weird o'er the waters shrills the loon; the high stars twinkle in the sea.
Who acts: rising moon, high stars · What happens: rise, look, laugh down, shrill, twinkle · To what, where: lake, loon, sea
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 (rising moon, high stars), 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 moon | det |
| 2 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 moon | amod |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 aboon | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 aboon | det |
| 6 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 aboon | compound |
| 7 | aboon | aboon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moon | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moon | punct |
| 9 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 looks | xcomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 laughing | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 lake | case |
| 13 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laughing | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lea | cc |
| 15 | lea | lea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lake | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 shrills | punct |
| 17 | Weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 shrills | advcl |
| 18 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 20 waters | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 waters | det |
| 20 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Weird | obl |
| 21 | shrills | shrill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 looks | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 loon | det |
| 23 | loon | loon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shrills | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 twinkle | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 stars | det |
| 26 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stars | amod |
| 27 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 twinkle | nsubj |
| 28 | twinkle | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 looks | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 sea | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sea | det |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 twinkle | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | look | present | the rising moon | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | laugh down | gerund | the rising moon not said here | lake and lea | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | shrill | present | the rising moon not said here | the loon | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location loon=Theme | ||||
| 5 | twinkle | present | the high stars | the sea | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |
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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