---
title: With the Summer flew the robin, Flew the bobolink and blue-bird. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: With the Summer flew the robin, Flew the bobolink and blue-bird. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/45/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/) / 45

# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 45

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
With the Summer flew the robin, Flew the bobolink and blue-bird.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** fly · **To what, where:** robin, bobolink

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:18:45
# text = With the Summer flew the robin, Flew the bobolink and blue-bird.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bobolink	bobolink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past |  | the robin |  |  |  | with the Summer | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location robin=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past |  | the bobolink and blue bird |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bobolink=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/44/)
- next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/46/)
- ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/)