Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 4
From his mouth and nostrils he blows the cold blasts of winter.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: blow, blast · To what, where: cold blasts, winter
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 mouth | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blows | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nostrils | cc |
| 5 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mouth | conj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 blows | nsubj |
| 7 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blasts | det |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blasts | amod |
| 10 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blows | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 winter | case |
| 12 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blasts | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 blows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | spirit | the cold blasts of winter | from spirit's mouth and nostrils | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent blast=Patient from mouth=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | blast | winter | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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