Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 34

Then a Nébe-nâw-baig caught me,-- Chief of all the Nébe-nâw-baigs-- Took me to his shining wigwam, In the cavern of the waters, Deep beneath the might waters.

Who acts: Nébe nâw baig · What happens: catch, take, shine · To what, where: me, cavern

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 (Nébe nâw baig), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 caught	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 baig	det
3	Nébe	Nébe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 baig	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Nébe	punct
5	nâw	nâw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 baig	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 nâw	punct
7	baig	baig	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caught	nsubj
8	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 caught	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Chief	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 Chief	punct
12	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 caught	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	20 baigs	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 baigs	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 baigs	det
16	Nébe	Nébe	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 baigs	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Nébe	punct
18	nâw	nâw	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 baigs	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 nâw	punct
20	baigs	baig	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Chief	nmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 Took	punct
22	Took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 caught	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 Took	iobj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 wigwam	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wigwam	nmod:poss
26	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 wigwam	amod
27	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Took	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cavern	punct
29	In	in	ADP	_	31 cavern	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cavern	det
31	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Took	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 waters	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 waters	det
34	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 cavern	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Deep	punct
36	Deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cavern	amod
37	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	40 waters	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 waters	det
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 waters	aux
40	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 Deep	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	a Nébe nâw baig	me			then	Chief of all Nébe nâw baigs obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	take	past	a Nébe nâw baig not said here		me	the cavern of the waters		to Chief's shining wigwam	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
3	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 2, sentence 34

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Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 34