Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 29

And behold, the long-lost mother Caught her wailing child and nursed her, Sang a lullaby and nursed her.

Who acts: lost mother · What happens: lose, catch, wail, nurse · To what, where: lullaby, Raven, child

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 (lost mother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 Caught	cc
2	behold	behold	INTJ	_	9 Caught	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 behold	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mother	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lost	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 mother	amod
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Caught	nsubj
9	Caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Caught	obj
11	wailing	wail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 Caught	advcl
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wailing	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 nursed	cc
14	nursed	nurse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Caught	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 nursed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Sang	punct
17	Sang	Sang	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Caught	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lullaby	det
19	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Caught	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 nursed	cc
21	nursed	nurse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Caught	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 nursed	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	catch	past	the lost mother	a lullaby	Raven	Sang obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary lullaby=Theme
3	wail	gerund	the lost mother not said here	child			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	nurse	past	the lost mother not said here		Raven		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
5	nurse	past	the lost mother not said here		Raven		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 29