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title: Ka-be-bón-ík-ka, the mighty, From his wigwam called Kewáydin,-- From… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Ka-be-bón-ík-ka, the mighty, From his wigwam called Kewáydin,-- From his home among the ice-bergs, From the sea of frozen waters, Called the swift and hungry North-wind. Who acts: Ka, bón ík. 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 74

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Ka-be-bón-ík-ka, the mighty, From his wigwam called Kewáydin,-- From his home among the ice-bergs, From the sea of frozen waters, Called the swift and hungry North-wind.

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**Who acts:** Ka, bón ík · **What happens:** be, call, freeze · **To what, where:** bón ík, wigwam, swift · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ka, bón ík), 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:pg8122:18:74
# text = Ka-be-bón-ík-ka, the mighty, From his wigwam called Kewáydin,-- From his home among the ice-bergs, From the sea of frozen waters, Called the swift and hungry North-wind.
1	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bón	bón	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ík	ík	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	From	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	Kewáydin	Kewáydin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	From	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	bergs	berg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	From	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
42	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive | Ka | bón ík and the sea of frozen waters |  |  |  | Ka's home among the ice bergs *appos*; the sea of frozen waters *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | Ka's wigwam *not said here* |  |  |  | Kewáydin *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **call** | participle | bón ík and the sea of frozen waters *not said here* | the swift and hungry North wind |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent swift=Recipient |

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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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