Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 19

Wâ-wa, wâ-wa, wâ-we-yeà; Kah-wéen, nee-zhéka kè-diaus-âi, Ke-gâh nau-wâi, ne-mé-go s'wéen, Ne-bâun, ne-bâun, ne-dâun-is-âis, Wâ-wa, wâ-wa, wâ-we-yeà;

Who acts: we, zhéka, Ke, Wâ wa, ne dâun · What happens: yeà, âi, wâi, go, be · To what, where: s'wéen, âis

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: who acts (we, zhéka, Ke, Wâ wa), 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	Wâ	Wâ	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wa	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Wâ	punct
3	wa	wa	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 go	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wa	punct
5	wâ	wâ	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wa	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 wâ	punct
7	wa	wa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wa	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 yeà	punct
9	wâ	wâ	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 yeà	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 wâ	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 yeà	nsubj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 yeà	punct
13	yeà	yeà	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wa	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 wéen	punct
15	Kah	Kah	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 wéen	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Kah	punct
17	wéen	wéen	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 go	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 âi	punct
19	nee	nee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 âi	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 nee	punct
21	zhéka	zhéka	X	Foreign=Yes	26 âi	nsubj
22	kè	kè	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 diaus	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 kè	punct
24	diaus	diaus	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 âi	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 âi	punct
26	âi	âi	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wéen	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wâi	punct
28	Ke	Ke	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 wâi	nsubj
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Ke	punct
30	gâh	gâh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wâi	amod
31	nau	nau	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wâi	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 nau	punct
33	wâi	wâi	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wéen	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 mé	punct
35	ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 mé	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 ne	punct
37	mé	mé	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wâi	appos
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 mé	punct
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
40	s'wéen	s'wéen	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 go	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 bâun	punct
42	Ne	Ne	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 bâun	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 Ne	punct
44	bâun	bâun	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 s'wéen	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 bâun	punct
46	ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bâun	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 ne	punct
48	bâun	bâun	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 s'wéen	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 dâun	punct
50	ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 dâun	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 ne	punct
52	dâun	dâun	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 âis	nsubj
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 dâun	punct
54	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 âis	cop
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 âis	punct
56	âis	âis	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 s'wéen	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 wa	punct
58	Wâ	Wâ	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 wa	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 Wâ	punct
60	wa	wa	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 âis	appos
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 wa	punct
62	wâ	wâ	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 wa	compound
63	-	-	PUNCT	_	62 wâ	punct
64	wa	wa	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 s'wéen	conj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 yeà	punct
66	wâ	wâ	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 yeà	compound
67	-	-	PUNCT	_	66 wâ	punct
68	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	70 yeà	nsubj
69	-	-	PUNCT	_	70 yeà	punct
70	yeà	yeà	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 s'wéen	conj
71	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	yeà		we			tree rules
2	âi		zhéka			tree rules
3	wâi		Ke		ne mé appos	tree rules
4	go	infinitive	Wâ wa and wâ wa and wâ yeà	s'wéen and Ne bâun and ne bâun and âis and wâ wa and wâ yeà	Kah wéen and nee diaus âi and gâh nau wâi nsubj	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location s'wéen=Theme
5	is a	present	ne dâun	âis	Wâ wa appos	tree rules
6	yeà		we			tree 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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 19

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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 19