Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 25

Homeward to his lodge returning Kindly greeting found the hunter, Fire to warm and food to nourish, Golden trout from Gitchee Gumee, Caught by Kâk-kâh-gè--the Raven.

Who acts: lodge, Homeward · What happens: return, find, warm, nourish, catch · To what, where: greeting, hunter, food

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 (lodge, Homeward), 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	Homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 lodge	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lodge	nmod:poss
4	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Homeward	nmod
5	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 lodge	acl
6	Kindly	kindly	ADV	_	5 returning	advmod
7	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returning	obj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hunter	det
10	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Fire	punct
12	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hunter	appos
13	to	to	PART	_	14 warm	mark
14	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 found	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 food	cc
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 warm	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 nourish	mark
18	nourish	nourish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 food	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 trout	punct
20	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 trout	amod
21	trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 food	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 Gitchee	case
23	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 trout	nmod
24	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Gitchee	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Caught	punct
26	Caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 food	acl
27	by	by	ADP	_	32 gè	case
28	Kâk	Kâk	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 gè	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Kâk	punct
30	kâh	kâh	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gè	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 kâh	punct
32	gè	gè	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Caught	obl
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 Raven	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Raven	det
35	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 gè	appos
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	gerund	Homeward's lodge not said here	greeting	kindly property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme
2	find	past	Homeward to Homeward's lodge	the hunter		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Topic
3	warm	to-infinitive	Homeward to Homeward's lodge not said here	food and Golden trout from Gitchee		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient
4	nourish	to-infinitive	Homeward to Homeward's lodge not said here	food and Golden trout from Gitchee not said here		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	catch	participle		food and Golden trout from Gitchee not said here	by Kâk kâh gè	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 25