Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 20

Ne-bâun, ne-bâun, ne-dâun-is-âis,

Who acts: Ne bâun · What happens: be · To what, where: 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 (Ne bâun), 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	Ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bâun	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Ne	punct
3	bâun	bâun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 âis	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bâun	punct
5	ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bâun	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ne	punct
7	bâun	bâun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bâun	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dâun	punct
9	ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dâun	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ne	punct
11	dâun	dâun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bâun	appos
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 dâun	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 âis	cop
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 âis	punct
15	âis	âis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 âis	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Ne bâun and ne bâun	âis					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 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 20