Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 87
The twinkling light on cape and height; the hum of voices on the shores; The merry laughter on the night; the dip and plash of frolic oars,-- These tell the tale.
Who acts: These, voices · What happens: twinkle, tell, hum · To what, where: tale, twinkling light · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (These, voices), 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 light | det |
| 2 | twinkling | twinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 light | amod |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 cape | case |
| 5 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 height | cc |
| 7 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 hum | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hum | det |
| 10 | hum | hum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 voices | case |
| 12 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hum | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 shores | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shores | det |
| 15 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 voices | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughter | punct |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 laughter | det |
| 18 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 laughter | amod |
| 19 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hum | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 laughter | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 dip | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dip | det |
| 25 | dip | dip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 laughter | appos |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 plash | cc |
| 27 | plash | plash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dip | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 oars | case |
| 29 | frolic | frolic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 oars | amod |
| 30 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dip | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 tell | punct |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 tell | punct |
| 33 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 tell | nsubj |
| 34 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dip | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tale | det |
| 36 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tell | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twinkle | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | These | the tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | hum | voices on the shores | nom hum «state intransitive»: of=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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