Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 86
From bank and hill the whippowil sends piping forth his flute-like notes, And clear and shrill the answers trill from leafy isles and silver throats.
Who acts: whippowil, answers · What happens: send, pipe, clear, shrill, trill, note · To what, where: bank, like notes, leafy isles
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 (whippowil, answers), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 bank | case |
| 2 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sends | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hill | cc |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bank | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 whippowil | det |
| 6 | whippowil | whippowil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sends | nsubj |
| 7 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | piping | pipe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sends | xcomp |
| 9 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 piping | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 notes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 like | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 flute | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 notes | amod |
| 14 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 piping | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clear | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clear | cc |
| 17 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sends | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shrill | cc |
| 19 | shrill | shrill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 clear | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 answers | det |
| 21 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 trill | nsubj |
| 22 | trill | trill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 shrill | ccomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 isles | case |
| 24 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 isles | amod |
| 25 | isles | isle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 trill | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 throats | cc |
| 27 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 throats | compound |
| 28 | throats | throat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 isles | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | the whippowil | bank and hill | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pipe | gerund | the whippowil not said here | whippowil's like notes | forth property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent note=Theme | |||
| 3 | clear | infinitive | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 4 | shrill | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | trill | present | the answers | leafy isles and silver throats | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | note | whippowil | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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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