Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 65

Thus she cast away her burdens, Cast her burdens on the waters; Thus unto the Mighty Spirit, Made her lowly lamentation: "Wahonówin!--Wahonówin!"

Who acts: rabbit · What happens: cast away, make, burden · To what, where: burdens, lowly lamentation, rabbit, waters

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 (rabbit), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 cast	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cast	nsubj
3	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 cast	advmod
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 burdens	nmod:poss
6	burdens	burden	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cast	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 burdens	punct
8	Cast	cast	ADP	_	10 burdens	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 burdens	nmod:poss
10	burdens	burden	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cast	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 waters	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 waters	det
13	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 burdens	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 Made	punct
15	Thus	thus	ADV	_	21 Made	advmod
16	unto	unto	ADP	_	19 Spirit	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Spirit	det
18	Mighty	Mighty	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Spirit	compound
19	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Thus	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Made	punct
21	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cast	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 Made	obj
23	lowly	lowly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lamentation	amod
24	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Made	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Wahonówin	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Wahonówin	punct
27	Wahonówin	Wahonówin	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 lamentation	appos
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 Wahonówin	punct
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 Wahonówin	punct
30	Wahonówin	Wahonówin	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Wahonówin	flat
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 Wahonówin	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Wahonówin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cast away	past	rabbit	rabbit's burdens			cast rabbit's burdens on the waters; away, thus property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Product
2	make	past	rabbit not said here	lowly lamentation	rabbit		thus property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary lamentation=Product
3	burden		rabbit					nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
4	burden		rabbit			the waters		nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent on=place

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 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 65