Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 26

With a snare he caught the rabbit-- Caught Wabóse, the furry footed, [107] Caught Penây, the forest drummer; [107] Sometimes with his bow and arrows, Shot the red deer in the forest.

Who acts: Homeward, furry · What happens: catch, foot, shoot · To what, where: rabbit, 107, Penây, forest

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 (Homeward, furry), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 snare	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 snare	det
3	snare	snare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rabbit	det
7	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 Caught	punct
9	Caught	Caught	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rabbit	appos
10	Wabóse	Wabóse	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Caught	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Caught	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 furry	det
13	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Caught	nsubj
14	footed	foot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 furry	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 107	punct
16	[	[	PUNCT	_	17 107	punct
17	107	107	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 footed	obl
18	]	]	PUNCT	_	17 107	punct
19	Caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	conj
20	Penây	Penây	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Caught	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drummer	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 drummer	det
23	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drummer	compound
24	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Penây	appos
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 Shot	punct
26	[	[	PUNCT	_	27 107	punct
27	107	107	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	36 Shot	obl
28	]	]	PUNCT	_	27 107	punct
29	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 Shot	advmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 bow	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 bow	nmod:poss
32	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Shot	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 arrows	cc
34	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 bow	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bow	punct
36	Shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 deer	det
38	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 deer	amod
39	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 Shot	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 forest	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 forest	det
42	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Shot	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Homeward	the rabbit		with a snare	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme
2	foot	participle		107			tree rules
3	catch	past	the furry	Penây			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penây=Theme
4	shoot	past	Homeward not said here	107	the forest	with Homeward's bow and arrows; the red deer obj; sometimes property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent deer=Theme in forest=Destination

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 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 26