Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 91

The moon-faced maid, in leafy glade, her warrior waited from the chase; The nut-brown, naked children played, and chased the gopher on the grass.

Who acts: faced maid, naked children · What happens: wait, play, chase · To what, where: chase, gopher, grass

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 (faced maid, naked children), 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	5 maid	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faced	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 moon	punct
4	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maid	amod
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waited	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 glade	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 glade	case
8	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 glade	amod
9	glade	glade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maid	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 maid	punct
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 warrior	nmod:poss
12	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waited	nsubj
13	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 chase	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chase	det
16	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waited	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 brown	punct
18	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 brown	det
19	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 brown	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 nut	punct
21	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 waited	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 played	punct
23	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 children	amod
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 played	nsubj
25	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 brown	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 chased	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 chased	cc
28	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 waited	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 gopher	det
30	gopher	gopher	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chased	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 grass	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 grass	det
33	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chased	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the faced maid and leafy glade		the chase	shore's warrior nsubj	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	past	naked children				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	chase	past	the faced maid and leafy glade not said here	the gopher	the grass		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gopher=Theme on grass=Trajectory

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 91

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 91