Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 45
The balmy clouds from his pipe float over the hills and woodland, filling the air with the haze of "Indian Summer."
Who acts: balmy clouds, Indian Summer · What happens: fill, haze · To what, where: air
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 (balmy clouds, Indian Summer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 clouds | det |
| 2 | balmy | balmy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clouds | amod |
| 3 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 filling | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 float | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 float | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 float | compound |
| 7 | float | float | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clouds | nmod |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 hills | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hills | det |
| 10 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 float | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 woodland | cc |
| 12 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hills | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 filling | punct |
| 14 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filling | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 haze | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 haze | det |
| 19 | haze | haze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filling | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Summer | case |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Summer | punct |
| 22 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Summer | amod |
| 23 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 haze | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 filling | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 filling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | gerund | the balmy clouds from ere's pipe float over the hills and woodland | the air | with the haze of Indian Summer | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with haze=Instrument | |||
| 2 | haze | Indian Summer | nom haze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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