Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 49
In her arms she caught her infant-- Caught the wailing Waub-omeé-meé, Sang a lullaby and nursed her.
Who acts: Raven · What happens: catch, wail, nurse · To what, where: infant, arms, wailing Waub omeé meé, Raven
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 arms | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 arms | nmod:poss |
| 3 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caught | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 infant | nmod:poss |
| 7 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 caught | obj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 Caught | punct |
| 9 | Caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 caught | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 meé | det |
| 11 | wailing | wail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 meé | amod |
| 12 | Waub | Waub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 meé | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Waub | punct |
| 14 | omeé | omeé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 meé | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 omeé | punct |
| 16 | meé | meé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Caught | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sang | punct |
| 18 | Sang | Sang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 meé | appos |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lullaby | det |
| 20 | lullaby | lullaby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Caught | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 nursed | cc |
| 22 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 nursed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Raven | Raven's infant | Raven's arms | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infant=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | participle | the wailing Waub omeé meé | a lullaby obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent meé=Beneficiary lullaby=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wail | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | nurse | past | Raven 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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