Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 70

In summer he shivers with cold, in winter he suffers from heat; he cries when he laughs and he laughs when he cries, &c. He is the reverse of nature in all things.

Who acts: Footnote, c. · What happens: shiver, suffer, cry, laugh, be · To what, where: heat, reverse, things

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 (Footnote, c.), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 summer	case
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shivers	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shivers	nsubj
4	shivers	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 cold	case
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shivers	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 suffers	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 winter	case
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 suffers	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 suffers	nsubj
11	suffers	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shivers	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 heat	case
13	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 suffers	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 cries	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cries	nsubj
16	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shivers	conj
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 laughs	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laughs	nsubj
19	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cries	ccomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 laughs	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laughs	nsubj
22	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 laughs	conj
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 cries	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cries	nsubj
25	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 laughs	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 reverse	punct
27	&	&	CCONJ	_	32 reverse	cc
28	c.	c.	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reverse	nsubj
29	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 reverse	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 reverse	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 reverse	det
32	reverse	reverse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shivers	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 nature	case
34	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reverse	nmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 things	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 things	det
37	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 reverse	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shivers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shiver	present	Footnote			summer	with cold	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	suffer	present	Footnote		heat	winter		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	cry speech: express	present	Footnote					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	laugh	present	Footnote					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	laugh	present	Footnote					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cry speech: express	present	Footnote					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present	c.	the reverse	all things		of nature; Footnote nsubj	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 3, sentence 70

The tree

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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 70