Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 16

In the wigwam sat the Red Fox, Hushed the wail of Waub-omeé-meé, Weeping for her absent mother.

Who acts: Red Fox, Waub omeé meé · What happens: sit, hush, weep, wail · To what, where: Red Fox, wigwam, wail

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red Fox, Waub omeé meé), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 wigwam	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wigwam	det
3	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fox	det
6	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Fox	compound
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Hushed	punct
9	Hushed	hush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Fox	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wail	det
11	wail	wail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Hushed	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 meé	case
13	Waub	Waub	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 meé	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Waub	punct
15	omeé	omeé	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 meé	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 omeé	punct
17	meé	meé	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wail	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Weeping	punct
19	Weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 mother	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
22	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mother	amod
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Weeping	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past		the Red Fox	the wigwam		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme in wigwam=Location
2	hush	participle	the Red Fox not said here	the wail of Waub omeé meé			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wail=Patient
3	weep	gerund				for Fox's absent mother	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wail		Waub omeé meé				nom wail «communication intransitive»: of=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 2, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 16