Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 90

Of yore from isle and shore the smoke of Indian teepees [a] rose; The hunter plied the silent oar; the forest lay in still repose.

Who acts: hunter, forest, Indian teepees · What happens: ply, lie, repose, smoke · To what, where: silent oar, smoke

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 (hunter, forest, Indian teepees), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 yore	case
2	yore	yore	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 isle	case
4	isle	isle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yore	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shore	cc
6	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yore	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 smoke	det
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yore	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 teepees	case
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 teepees	amod
11	teepees	teepee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 smoke	nmod
12	[	[	PUNCT	_	15 rose	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rose	det
14	]	]	PUNCT	_	15 rose	punct
15	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 teepees	appos
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 plied	punct
17	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hunter	det
18	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 plied	nsubj
19	plied	ply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rose	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 oar	det
21	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 oar	amod
22	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 plied	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 forest	det
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smoke	acl:relcl
27	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 repose	mark
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 repose	advmod
29	repose	repose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 lay	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 yore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ply	past	the hunter	the silent oar		vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent oar=Recipient
2	lie	past	the forest	the smoke of Indian teepees not said here		tree rules
3	repose	infinitive	the forest not said here		still	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	smoke		Indian teepees			nom smoke «phenomenon 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 90

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 90