Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 32

Spoke the mother to the Raven: "O my son--my brave young hunter, Feed my tender little orphan; Be a father to my orphan; Be a mother to my orphan,-- For the Crafty Red Fox robbed us,-- Robbed the Sea-Gull of her husband, Robbed the infant of her mother.

Who acts: Crafty Red Fox · What happens: speak, feed, be, rob · To what, where: mother, tender little orphan, father, us, Sea Gull, infant · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Crafty Red Fox), 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	Spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spoke	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Raven	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Raven	det
6	Raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spoke	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 son	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 son	punct
9	O	o	INTJ	_	11 son	discourse
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spoke	obl
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 hunter	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hunter	nmod:poss
14	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hunter	amod
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hunter	amod
16	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 son	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Feed	punct
18	Feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 son	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 orphan	nmod:poss
20	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 orphan	amod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 orphan	amod
22	orphan	orphan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Feed	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 father	punct
24	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 father	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 father	det
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spoke	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 orphan	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 orphan	nmod:poss
29	orphan	orphan	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 father	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 mother	punct
31	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 mother	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 mother	det
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spoke	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 orphan	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 orphan	nmod:poss
36	orphan	orphan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 mother	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 robbed	punct
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 robbed	punct
39	For	for	ADP	_	43 Fox	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Fox	det
41	Crafty	Crafty	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Fox	compound
42	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Fox	flat
43	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 robbed	nsubj
44	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 mother	parataxis
45	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 robbed	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 Robbed	punct
47	--	--	PUNCT	_	48 Robbed	punct
48	Robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 robbed	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Gull	det
50	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Gull	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 Sea	punct
52	Gull	Gull	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Robbed	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 husband	case
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 husband	nmod:poss
55	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 Gull	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 Robbed	punct
57	Robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 Robbed	conj
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 infant	det
59	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 Robbed	obj
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 mother	case
61	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 mother	nmod:poss
62	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 infant	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past		the mother		to the Raven; my son and my brave young hunter obl	tree rules
2	feed in a quote	infinitive			my tender little orphan		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orphan=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	infinitive		a father		to my orphan	tree rules
4	is a in a quote	infinitive		a mother		to my orphan	tree rules
5	rob in a quote	past	the Crafty Red Fox	us			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Source
6	rob in a quote	participle	the Crafty Red Fox not said here	the Sea Gull of mother's husband			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gull=Source
7	rob in a quote	participle	the Crafty Red Fox not said here	the infant of mother's mother			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infant=Source

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 32

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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 32