Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 74

Ka-be-bón-ík-ka, the mighty, From his wigwam called Kewáydin,-- From his home among the ice-bergs, From the sea of frozen waters, Called the swift and hungry North-wind.

Who acts: Ka, bón ík · What happens: be, call, freeze · To what, where: bón ík, wigwam, swift · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ka, bón ík), 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	Ka	Ka	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ík	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Ka	punct
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 ík	cop
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bón	punct
5	bón	bón	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ík	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bón	punct
7	ík	ík	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ka	punct
9	ka	ka	X	Foreign=Yes	7 ík	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mighty	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mighty	det
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ka	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wigwam	punct
14	From	from	ADP	_	16 wigwam	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wigwam	nmod:poss
16	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mighty	obl
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 wigwam	acl
18	Kewáydin	Kewáydin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 called	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 home	punct
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 home	punct
21	From	from	ADP	_	23 home	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 home	nmod:poss
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ík	appos
24	among	among	ADP	_	28 bergs	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bergs	det
26	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bergs	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 ice	punct
28	bergs	berg	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 home	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sea	punct
30	From	from	ADP	_	32 sea	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sea	det
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ík	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 waters	case
34	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 waters	amod
35	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sea	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Called	punct
37	Called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ík	acl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 swift	det
39	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Called	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 wind	cc
41	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 wind	amod
42	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 wind	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 North	punct
44	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 swift	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ík	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive	Ka	bón ík and the sea of frozen waters	Ka's home among the ice bergs appos; the sea of frozen waters conj	tree rules
2	call	participle		Ka's wigwam not said here	Kewáydin xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	call	participle	bón ík and the sea of frozen waters not said here	the swift and hungry North wind		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent swift=Recipient

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 74

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 74