Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 98
Ah, birch canoe, and hunter, too, have long forsaken lake and shore: He bade his father's bones adieu and turned away forevermore.
Who acts: lake · What happens: forsake, bade, turn away · To what, where: birch canoe, bones adieu
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 (lake), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 canoe | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 canoe | compound |
| 4 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forsaken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hunter | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hunter | cc |
| 7 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 canoe | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hunter | punct |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 canoe | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 canoe | punct |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 forsaken | aux |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 forsaken | advmod |
| 13 | forsaken | forsake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forsaken | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shore | cc |
| 16 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lake | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 bade | punct |
| 18 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bade | nsubj |
| 19 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 forsaken | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bones | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 father | case |
| 23 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 adieu | compound |
| 24 | adieu | adieu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bade | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 turned | cc |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bade | conj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 turned | advmod |
| 28 | forevermore | forevermore | ADV | _ | 26 turned | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 forsaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forsake | present · perfect · passive | birch canoe | lake and shore obj; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bade | past | lake | bones adieu | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn away | past | lake not said here | away, forevermore property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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