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Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 17

In his palm the lakelet lingers, in his hair the brooklets hide, Grasped within his thousand fingers lies a continent fair and wide,-- Yea, a mighty empire swarming with its millions like the bees, Delving, drudging, striving, storming, all their lives, for golden ease.

Who acts: lakelet, brooklets, mighty empire · What happens: linger, hide, grasp, lie, swarm, delve · To what, where: palm, hair, continent, storming

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lakelet, brooklets, mighty empire), 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

casenmod:possobldetnsubjpunctcasenmod:possobldetnsubjconjpunctnsubjcasenmod:possnummodoblconjdetobjxcompccconjpunctpunctdiscoursepunctdetamodparataxisaclcasenmod:possoblcasedetnmodpunctconjpunctconjpunctconjpunctobjpunctdet:predetnmod:possconjpunctcaseamodconjpunctrootInADPhisPRONpalmNOUNtheDETlakeletNOUNlingersVERB,PUNCTinADPhisPRONhairNOUNtheDETbrookletsNOUNhideVERB,PUNCTGraspedVERBwithinADPhisPRONthousandNUMfingersNOUNliesVERBaDETcontinentNOUNfairADJandCCONJwideADJ,PUNCT--PUNCTYeaINTJ,PUNCTaDETmightyADJempireNOUNswarmingVERBwithADPitsPRONmillionsNOUNlikeADPtheDETbeesNOUN,PUNCTDelvingVERB,PUNCTdrudgingVERB,PUNCTstrivingVERB,PUNCTstormingNOUN,PUNCTallDETtheirPRONlivesNOUN,PUNCTforADPgoldenADJeaseNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_3 palmcase
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 palmnmod:poss
3palmpalmNOUNNumber=Sing6 lingersobl
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 lakeletdet
5lakeletlakeletNOUNNumber=Sing6 lingersnsubj
6lingerslingerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
7,,PUNCT_13 hidepunct
8ininADP_10 haircase
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 hairnmod:poss
10hairhairNOUNNumber=Sing13 hideobl
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 brookletsdet
12brookletsbrookletNOUNNumber=Plur13 hidensubj
13hidehideVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 lingersconj
14,,PUNCT_15 Graspedpunct
15GraspedgraspVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 liesnsubj
16withinwithinADP_19 fingerscase
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 fingersnmod:poss
18thousandthousandNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 fingersnummod
19fingersfingerNOUNNumber=Plur15 Graspedobl
20lieslieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 lingersconj
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 continentdet
22continentcontinentNOUNNumber=Sing20 liesobj
23fairfairADJDegree=Pos20 liesxcomp
24andandCCONJ_25 widecc
25widewideADJDegree=Pos23 fairconj
26,,PUNCT_32 empirepunct
27----PUNCT_32 empirepunct
28YeayeaINTJ_32 empirediscourse
29,,PUNCT_28 Yeapunct
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 empiredet
31mightymightyADJDegree=Pos32 empireamod
32empireempireNOUNNumber=Sing6 lingersparataxis
33swarmingswarmVERBVerbForm=Ger32 empireacl
34withwithADP_36 millionscase
35itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 millionsnmod:poss
36millionsmillionNOUNNumber=Plur33 swarmingobl
37likelikeADP_39 beescase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 beesdet
39beesbeeNOUNNumber=Plur36 millionsnmod
40,,PUNCT_41 Delvingpunct
41DelvingdelveVERBVerbForm=Ger33 swarmingconj
42,,PUNCT_43 drudgingpunct
43drudgingdrudgeVERBVerbForm=Ger33 swarmingconj
44,,PUNCT_45 strivingpunct
45strivingstriveVERBVerbForm=Ger33 swarmingconj
46,,PUNCT_47 stormingpunct
47stormingstormingNOUNNumber=Sing45 strivingobj
48,,PUNCT_51 livespunct
49allallDETPronType=Tot51 livesdet:predet
50theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs51 livesnmod:poss
51liveslifeNOUNNumber=Plur32 empireconj
52,,PUNCT_55 easepunct
53forforADP_55 easecase
54goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos55 easeamod
55easeeaseNOUNNumber=Sing32 empireconj
56..PUNCT_6 lingerspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lingerpresentthe lakeletRiver's palma mighty empire and brooklets's lives and golden ease parataxisvn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palm=Location
2hidepresentthe brookletsRiver's hairvn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hair=Location
3graspparticiplewithin River's thousand fingersvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4liepresenta continentfair propertyvn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location continent=Theme
5swarmgerunda mighty empire and brooklets's lives and golden ease not said herewith lakelet's millions like the beesvn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with million=Theme
6delvegerunda mighty empire and brooklets's lives and golden ease not said herevn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
7drudgegerunda mighty empire and brooklets's lives and golden ease not said heretree rules
8strivegerunda mighty empire and brooklets's lives and golden ease not said herestormingtree 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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