Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 137

O, what are leagues to the loving hunter, Or the blinding drift of the hurricane, When it raves and roars o'er the frozen plain!

Who acts: hurricane · What happens: be, rave, roar, freeze, drift · To what, where: leagues, hurricane

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hurricane), 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	O	o	INTJ	_	5 leagues	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 O	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 leagues	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 leagues	cop
5	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 hunter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hunter	det
8	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hunter	amod
9	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leagues	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drift	punct
11	Or	or	CCONJ	_	14 drift	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 drift	det
13	blinding	blinding	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 drift	amod
14	drift	drift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leagues	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 hurricane	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hurricane	det
17	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drift	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 raves	punct
19	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 raves	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 raves	nsubj
21	raves	rave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 drift	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 roars	cc
23	roars	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 raves	conj
24	o'er	o'er	ADP	_	27 plain	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 plain	det
26	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 plain	amod
27	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 roars	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 leagues	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		leagues or the blinding drift of the hurricane	to the loving hunter; what nsubj; the blinding drift of the hurricane conj	tree rules
2	rave speech: other	present	hurricane			vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	roar	present	hurricane not said here		o'er the frozen plain	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	drift			the hurricane		nom drift «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 137

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 137