Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 86

"Ah, my son, I bid you welcome; Sit and tell me your adventures; I will tell you of my power; We will pass the night together."

Who acts: son, you, winter, We, your · What happens: bid, welcome, sit, tell, pass, adventure · To what, where: adventures, winter, you · 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 (son, you, winter, We), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 son	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bid	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 bid	nsubj
8	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 welcome	nsubj
10	welcome	welcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bid	ccomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 Sit	punct
12	Sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 welcome	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Sit	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 adventures	nmod:poss
17	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tell	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tell	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	aux
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bid	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 power	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 power	nmod:poss
25	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tell	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 pass	punct
27	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 pass	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 pass	aux
29	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bid	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pass	obj
32	together	together	ADV	_	29 pass	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 pass	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bid in a quote	past	my son				I nsubj	tree rules
2	welcome in a quote	present	you					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sit in a quote	infinitive	you not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	your adventures	all winter = winter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient adventure=Topic
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	all winter = winter		you		of my power	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	pass in a quote	future	We			night	together property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	adventure in a quote		your					nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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 86

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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 86