Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 93

In yonder tree the great _Wanm-dee_ [b] securely built her spacious nest; The blast that swept the land-locked sea [c] but rocked her clamorous babes to rest.

Who acts: great Wanm dee, blast · What happens: build, sweep, lock, rock, rest · To what, where: spacious nest, tree, locked sea, clamorous babes

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 (great Wanm dee, blast), 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 tree	case
2	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	3 tree	advmod
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dee	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dee	amod
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 Wanm	punct
7	Wanm	Wanm	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dee	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Wanm	punct
9	dee	Dee	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 built	nsubj
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 dee	punct
11	[	[	PUNCT	_	12 b	punct
12	b	B	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dee	appos
13	]	]	PUNCT	_	12 b	punct
14	securely	securely	ADV	_	15 built	advmod
15	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 nest	nmod:poss
17	spacious	spacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nest	amod
18	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 blast	punct
20	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 blast	det
21	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 swept	nsubj
23	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 blast	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 locked	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 land	punct
27	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 sea	amod
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swept	obj
29	[	[	PUNCT	_	30 c	punct
30	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sea	appos
31	]	]	PUNCT	_	30 c	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 rocked	cc
33	rocked	rock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 swept	conj
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 babes	nmod:poss
35	clamorous	clamorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 babes	amod
36	babes	babe	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rocked	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 rest	mark
38	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 rocked	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past	the great Wanm dee	dee's spacious nest	tree	the blast obl; securely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product
2	sweep	past	the blast	the locked sea			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Trajectory
3	lock	participle				land compound	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	rock	past	the blast not said here	dee's clamorous babes			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location babe=Theme
5	rest	to-infinitive	the blast not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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 93

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 93