Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 44

In Autumn, in the moon of the falling leaf, ere he composes himself to his winter's sleep, he fills his great pipe and takes a god-like smoke.

Who acts: ere, winter · What happens: fall, compose, fill, take, sleep · To what, where: ere, great pipe, like smoke

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ere, winter), 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 Autumn	case
2	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 composes	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 moon	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moon	det
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Autumn	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 leaf	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leaf	det
9	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 leaf	amod
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moon	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Autumn	punct
12	ere	ere	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 composes	nsubj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 composes	nsubj
14	composes	compose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 composes	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 sleep	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 winter	nmod:poss
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sleep	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 winter	case
20	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 composes	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fills	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fills	nsubj
23	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 composes	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 pipe	nmod:poss
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pipe	amod
26	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fills	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 takes	cc
28	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 fills	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 smoke	det
30	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 like	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 god	punct
32	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 smoke	amod
33	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 takes	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 composes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	compose	present	ere	ere	in Autumn; to ere's winter's sleep	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result
3	fill	present	ere	ere's great pipe		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient
4	take	present	ere not said here	a like smoke		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme
5	sleep		ere's winter			nom sleep «state 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 5, sentence 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 44