Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 92
The dappled fawn, on wooded lawn, peeped out upon the birch canoe, Swift-gliding in the gray of dawn along the silent waters blue.
Who acts: dappled fawn · What happens: dapple, wood, peep out, glide · To what, where: gray, dappled fawn
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 (dappled fawn), 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 fawn | det |
| 2 | dappled | dapple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fawn | amod |
| 3 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lawn | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 lawn | case |
| 6 | wooded | wood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lawn | amod |
| 7 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fawn | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 peeped | punct |
| 9 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fawn | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 peeped | compound:prt |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 canoe | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 canoe | det |
| 13 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 canoe | compound |
| 14 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 peeped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fawn | punct |
| 16 | Swift | Swift | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fawn | conj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Swift | punct |
| 18 | gliding | glide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 fawn | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 gray | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gray | det |
| 21 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gliding | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 dawn | case |
| 23 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gray | nmod |
| 24 | along | along | ADP | _ | 28 blue | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 waters | det |
| 26 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 waters | amod |
| 27 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 blue | nsubj |
| 28 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gliding | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dapple | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | wood | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | peep out | participle | upon the birch canoe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon canoe=Theme | |||||
| 4 | glide | gerund | the dappled fawn and wooded lawn and Swift not said here | the gray of dawn | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gray=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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