Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 99
But still, methinks, on dusky brinks the spirit of the warrior moves; At crystal springs the hunter drinks, and nightly haunts the spot he loves.
Who acts: spirit, hunter, warrior · What happens: move, drink, haunt, love · To what, where: spot, methinks
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 (spirit, hunter, warrior), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 methinks | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 methinks | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 methinks | punct |
| 4 | methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brinks | punct |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 brinks | case |
| 7 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brinks | amod |
| 8 | brinks | brink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 methinks | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spirit | det |
| 10 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moves | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 warrior | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 warrior | det |
| 13 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spirit | nmod |
| 14 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 brinks | parataxis |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 drinks | punct |
| 16 | At | at | ADP | _ | 18 springs | case |
| 17 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 springs | amod |
| 18 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 drinks | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hunter | det |
| 20 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drinks | nsubj |
| 21 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 methinks | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 haunts | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 haunts | cc |
| 24 | nightly | nightly | ADV | _ | 25 haunts | advmod |
| 25 | haunts | haunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 drinks | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spot | det |
| 27 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 haunts | obj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 loves | nsubj |
| 29 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 spot | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 methinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | the spirit of the warrior | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drink | present | the hunter | spring | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | haunt | present | the hunter not said here | the spot | nightly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus spot=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | love | present | warrior | the spot not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus |
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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