Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 61

Then again the brawny hunter Brought the black bear and the beaver, Brought the haunch of elk and red-deer, Brought the rabbit and the pheasant-- Choicest bits of all for Red Fox.

Who acts: brawny hunter · What happens: bring · To what, where: black bear, haunch, rabbit

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 (brawny hunter), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 again	advmod
2	again	again	ADV	_	6 Brought	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hunter	det
4	brawny	brawny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hunter	amod
5	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Brought	nsubj
6	Brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bear	det
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bear	amod
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Brought	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 beaver	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beaver	det
12	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bear	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Brought	punct
14	Brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Brought	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 haunch	det
16	haunch	haunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Brought	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 elk	case
18	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 haunch	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 deer	cc
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 deer	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 red	punct
22	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 elk	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Brought	punct
24	Brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Brought	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rabbit	det
26	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Brought	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pheasant	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pheasant	det
29	pheasant	pheasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rabbit	conj
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 bits	punct
31	Choicest	choice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 bits	amod
32	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 rabbit	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 all	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 bits	nmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 Fox	case
36	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Fox	amod
37	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 all	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	bring	past	the brawny hunter	the black bear and the beaver		again; then	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bear=Theme
2	bring	past	the brawny hunter not said here	the haunch of elk and red deer			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent haunch=Theme
3	bring	past	the brawny hunter not said here		the rabbit and the pheasant and Choicest bits of all for Red Fox		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument rabbit=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 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 61