Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 24

E-we wâ-wa--lullaby, E-we wâ-wa-lullaby.

Who acts: E-we · What happens: lullaby · To what, where: E-we wâ wa

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 (E-we), 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	E-we	E-we	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wa	compound
2	wâ	wâ	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wa	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wâ	punct
4	wa	wa	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 lullaby	punct
6	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wa	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lullaby	punct
8	E-we	E-we	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 lullaby	nsubj
9	wâ	wâ	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wa	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 wâ	punct
11	wa	wa	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lullaby	compound
12			NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lullaby	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12	punct
14	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wa	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wa	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lullaby		E-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 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 24