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title: In her arms she caught her infant-- Caught the wailing Waub-omeé-meé… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In her arms she caught her infant-- Caught the wailing Waub-omeé-meé, Sang a lullaby and nursed her. Who acts: Raven. 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 49

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In her arms she caught her infant-- Caught the wailing Waub-omeé-meé, Sang a lullaby and nursed her.

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**Who acts:** Raven · **What happens:** catch, wail, nurse · **To what, where:** infant, arms, wailing Waub omeé meé, Raven

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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 (Raven), 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:pg8122:19:49
# text = In her arms she caught her infant-- Caught the wailing Waub-omeé-meé, Sang a lullaby and nursed her.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	wailing	wail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
12	Waub	Waub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	omeé	omeé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	meé	meé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Sang	Sang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	nursed	nurse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | Raven | Raven's infant |  | Raven's arms |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infant=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | participle |  | the wailing Waub omeé meé |  |  |  | a lullaby *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent meé=Beneficiary lullaby=Theme |
| 3 | **wail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **nurse** | past | Raven *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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