Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 87

Thus spake Péboân--the Winter; Then he filled his pipe and lighted; Then by sacred custom raised it To the spirits in the ether; To the spirits in the caverns Of the hollow earth he lowered it.

Who acts: you, Péboân · What happens: speak, fill, light, raise, lower · To what, where: Péboân, pipe, spirits · 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 (you, Péboân), 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	_	2 spake	advmod
2	spake	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Péboân	Péboân	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spake	obj
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 Winter	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Winter	det
6	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Péboân	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 filled	punct
8	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 filled	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 filled	nsubj
10	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spake	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pipe	nmod:poss
12	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 filled	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lighted	cc
14	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 filled	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 raised	punct
16	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 raised	advmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 custom	case
18	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 custom	amod
19	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 raised	obl
20	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spake	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 raised	obj
22	To	to	ADP	_	24 spirits	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 spirits	det
24	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 raised	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 ether	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ether	det
27	ether	ether	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spirits	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 spirits	punct
29	To	to	ADP	_	31 spirits	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 spirits	det
31	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 raised	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 caverns	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 caverns	det
34	caverns	cavern	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 spirits	nmod
35	Of	of	ADP	_	38 earth	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 earth	det
37	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 earth	amod
38	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 caverns	nmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 lowered	nsubj
40	lowered	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 earth	acl:relcl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 lowered	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here	Péboân the Winter			thus property	tree rules
2	fill	past	Péboân	Péboân's pipe		then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient
3	light	participle	Péboân not said here					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	raise	past	you not said here	pipe	the spirits in the ether	then	by sacred custom	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by custom=Destination to spirit=Initial_Location
5	lower	past	Péboân	pipe				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 87

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 87