Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 94

By grassy mere the elk and deer gazed on the hunter as he came; Nor fled with fear from bow or spear;--"so wild were they that they were tame."

Who acts: elk, child, Nor · What happens: gaze, come, flee, be · To what, where: hunter, bow

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 (elk, child, Nor), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 mere	case
2	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mere	amod
3	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gazed	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 elk	det
5	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gazed	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 deer	cc
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 elk	conj
8	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 hunter	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hunter	det
11	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gazed	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gazed	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 fled	punct
16	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fled	nsubj
17	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gazed	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 fear	case
19	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fled	obl
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 bow	case
21	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fled	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 spear	cc
23	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bow	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 wild	punct
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 wild	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 wild	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 wild	advmod
28	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gazed	ccomp
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 they	cop
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wild	obl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 tame	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tame	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 tame	cop
34	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 they	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 wild	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 gazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	the elk and deer		the hunter	by grassy mere	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by mere=Theme
2	come	past	child				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flee	past	Nor		bow or spear	with fear	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bow=Initial_Location
4	is a in a quote	past		bow			tree rules
5	is in a quote	past	elk			tame property	tree rules

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 94

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 94