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title: And behold, the long-lost mother Caught her wailing child and nursed… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And behold, the long-lost mother Caught her wailing child and nursed her, Sang a lullaby and nursed her. Who acts: lost mother. 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 29

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And behold, the long-lost mother Caught her wailing child and nursed her, Sang a lullaby and nursed her.

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**Who acts:** lost mother · **What happens:** lose, catch, wail, nurse · **To what, where:** lullaby, Raven, child

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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 (lost mother), 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:pg8122:19:29
# text = And behold, the long-lost mother Caught her wailing child and nursed her, Sang a lullaby and nursed her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	Caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	wailing	wail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	nursed	nurse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Sang	Sang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	nursed	nurse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **catch** | past | the lost mother | a lullaby | Raven |  |  | Sang *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary lullaby=Theme |
| 3 | **wail** | gerund | the lost mother *not said here* | child |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 4 | **nurse** | past | the lost mother *not said here* |  | Raven |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **nurse** | past | the lost mother *not said here* |  | Raven |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |

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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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