Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 47

On the tall cliff o'er the waters Raven sat with Waub-omeé-meé, Sat and watched again and waited, Till the wee one faint and famished, Made a long and piteous wailing.

Who acts: Raven · What happens: sit, watch, wait, famish, make · To what, where: tall cliff, long wailing

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 (Raven), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 cliff	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cliff	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cliff	amod
4	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
5	o'er	o'er	ADP	_	7 waters	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 waters	det
7	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cliff	nmod
8	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	15 meé	case
11	Waub	Waub	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 meé	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Waub	punct
13	omeé	omeé	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meé	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 omeé	punct
15	meé	meé	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Sat	punct
17	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 meé	appos
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 watched	cc
19	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 watched	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 waited	cc
22	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 faint	punct
24	Till	till	ADP	_	28 faint	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 faint	det
26	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 faint	amod
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 faint	compound
28	faint	faint	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 waited	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 famished	cc
30	famished	famish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 waited	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Made	punct
32	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 waited	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 wailing	det
34	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 wailing	amod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 piteous	cc
36	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 long	conj
37	wailing	wailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Made	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Raven		the tall cliff o'er the waters		with Waub omeé meé	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cliff=Location
2	watch	past	Raven not said here			again		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	wait	past	Raven not said here				the wee one faint conj	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	famish	past	Raven not said here					tree rules
5	make	past	Raven not said here	a long wailing				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wailing=Product

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 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 47