Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 37

When my little one is famished, When with long and piteous wailing Cries the orphan for her mother, Hither bring her, O my Raven; I will hear her,--I will answer.

Who acts: I · What happens: famish, cry, bring, hear, answer · To what, where: little one, orphan

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 (I), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 famished	mark
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod:poss
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 famished	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 famished	aux:pass
6	famished	famish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 Cries	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 famished	punct
8	When	when	SCONJ	_	14 Cries	mark
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 wailing	case
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wailing	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 piteous	cc
12	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 long	conj
13	wailing	wailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Cries	obl
14	Cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 orphan	det
16	orphan	orphan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Cries	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 mother	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 orphan	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bring	punct
21	Hither	hither	ADV	_	22 bring	advmod
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Cries	advcl
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bring	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Raven	punct
25	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	27 Raven	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 Raven	nmod:poss
27	Raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bring	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 hear	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 hear	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 hear	aux
31	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Cries	advcl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hear	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 answer	punct
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 answer	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 answer	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 answer	aux
37	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 hear	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 Cries	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	famish	present · passive		my little one			tree rules
2	cry speech: express	present		the orphan		with long wailing; for orphan's mother	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orphan=Topic
3	bring	infinitive			orphan	my Raven conj; hither property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
4	hear	future	I	orphan			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	answer speech: assert	future	I				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 37