--- title: With a snare he caught the rabbit-- Caught Wabóse, the furry footed,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: With a snare he caught the rabbit-- Caught Wabóse, the furry footed, [107] Caught Penây, the forest drummer; [107] Sometimes with his bow and arrows, Shot the red deer in the forest. Who acts: Homeward, furry. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Homeward, furry), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:18:26 # text = With a snare he caught the rabbit-- Caught Wabóse, the furry footed, [107] Caught Penây, the forest drummer; [107] Sometimes with his bow and arrows, Shot the red deer in the forest. 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 snare snare NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 -- -- PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Caught Caught PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 Wabóse Wabóse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 furry furry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 nsubj _ _ 14 footed foot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 107 107 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 Caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 Penây Penây PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 drummer drummer NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 26 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 107 107 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 36 advmod _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 arrows arrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 36 Shot shoot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | past | Homeward | the rabbit | | | | with a snare | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme | | 2 | **foot** | participle | | 107 | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **catch** | past | the furry | Penây | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penây=Theme | | 4 | **shoot** | past | Homeward *not said here* | 107 | | the forest | | with Homeward's bow and arrows; the red deer *obj*; sometimes *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent deer=Theme in forest=Destination | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/27/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/)