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title: In the wigwam sat the Red Fox, Hushed the wail of Waub-omeé-meé, Wee… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the wigwam sat the Red Fox, Hushed the wail of Waub-omeé-meé, Weeping for her absent mother. Who acts: Red Fox, Waub omeé meé. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 16

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In the wigwam sat the Red Fox, Hushed the wail of Waub-omeé-meé, Weeping for her absent mother.

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**Who acts:** Red Fox, Waub omeé meé · **What happens:** sit, hush, weep, wail · **To what, where:** Red Fox, wigwam, wail

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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 (Red Fox, Waub omeé meé), 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:pg8122:19:16
# text = In the wigwam sat the Red Fox, Hushed the wail of Waub-omeé-meé, Weeping for her absent mother.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Hushed	hush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	Waub	Waub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	omeé	omeé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	meé	meé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | the Red Fox |  | the wigwam |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme in wigwam=Location |
| 2 | **hush** | participle | the Red Fox *not said here* | the wail of Waub omeé meé |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wail=Patient |
| 3 | **weep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for Fox's absent mother | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wail** |  | Waub omeé meé |  |  |  |  |  | nom wail «communication intransitive»: of=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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