Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 99

At night he often lights a torch (evidently the _ignis fatuus_ or Jack-a-lantern) and swings it on the marshes to decoy the unwary into his toils.]

Who acts: hé, Jack · What happens: light, lantern, swing, decoy, toil · To what, where: torch, marshes, unwary, toils

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hé, Jack), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lights	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lights	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 lights	advmod
5	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 torch	det
7	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lights	obj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 fatuus	punct
9	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	13 fatuus	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fatuus	det
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 fatuus	punct
12	ignis	ignis	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fatuus	compound
13	fatuus	fatuu	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 torch	appos
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 fatuus	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 lantern	cc
16	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lantern	nsubj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 lantern	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lantern	det
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 a	punct
20	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fatuus	conj
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 fatuus	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 swings	cc
23	swings	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lights	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 swings	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 marshes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 marshes	det
27	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 swings	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 decoy	mark
29	decoy	decoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 swings	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 unwary	det
31	unwary	unwary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 decoy	obj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 toils	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 toils	nmod:poss
34	toils	toil	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 decoy	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lights	punct
36	]	]	PUNCT	_	5 lights	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	present	hé	a torch		night	often property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Product
2	lantern		Jack					tree rules
3	swing	present	hé not said here	torch	the marshes			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on marsh=Location
4	decoy	to-infinitive	hé not said here	the unwary	hé's toils			tree rules
5	toil		hé					nom toil «act intransitive»: poss=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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 99

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 99