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title: Homeward to his lodge returning Kindly greeting found the hunter, Fi… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Homeward to his lodge returning Kindly greeting found the hunter, Fire to warm and food to nourish, Golden trout from Gitchee Gumee, Caught by Kâk-kâh-gè--the Raven. Who acts: lodge, Homeward. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, with
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 25

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Homeward to his lodge returning Kindly greeting found the hunter, Fire to warm and food to nourish, Golden trout from Gitchee Gumee, Caught by Kâk-kâh-gè--the Raven.

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**Who acts:** lodge, Homeward · **What happens:** return, find, warm, nourish, catch · **To what, where:** greeting, hunter, food

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lodge, Homeward), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:18:25
# text = Homeward to his lodge returning Kindly greeting found the hunter, Fire to warm and food to nourish, Golden trout from Gitchee Gumee, Caught by Kâk-kâh-gè--the Raven.
1	Homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	Kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	nourish	nourish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	trout	trout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	Kâk	Kâk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	kâh	kâh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	gè	gè	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | Homeward's lodge *not said here* | greeting |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | Homeward to Homeward's lodge | the hunter |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Topic |
| 3 | **warm** | to-infinitive | Homeward to Homeward's lodge *not said here* | food and Golden trout from Gitchee |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 4 | **nourish** | to-infinitive | Homeward to Homeward's lodge *not said here* | food and Golden trout from Gitchee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **catch** | participle |  | food and Golden trout from Gitchee *not said here* |  |  |  | by Kâk kâh gè | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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