---
title: On the rocks of Gitchee Gumee-- On the Pictured Rocks--the Legend Lo… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: On the rocks of Gitchee Gumee-- On the Pictured Rocks--the Legend Long ago was traced and written, Pictured by the Water Spirits; But the storms of many winters Have bedimmed the pictured story, So that none can read the legend But the Jossakeeds, the prophets. Who acts: storms, none, many winters. 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/69/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/) / 69

# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 69

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
On the rocks of Gitchee Gumee-- On the Pictured Rocks--the Legend Long ago was traced and written, Pictured by the Water Spirits; But the storms of many winters Have bedimmed the pictured story, So that none can read the legend But the Jossakeeds, the prophets.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** storms, none, many winters · **What happens:** picture, trace, write, bedim, read, storm · **To what, where:** Legend Long, pictured story, legend, rocks

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (storms, none, many winters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:19:69
# text = On the rocks of Gitchee Gumee-- On the Pictured Rocks--the Legend Long ago was traced and written, Pictured by the Water Spirits; But the storms of many winters Have bedimmed the pictured story, So that none can read the legend But the Jossakeeds, the prophets.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	On	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Pictured	picture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	Rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Legend	Legend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Long	Long	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Pictured	picture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
28	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	bedimmed	bedim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	pictured	picture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
38	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	So	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	44	nsubj	_	_
43	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Jossakeeds	Jossakeed	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trace** | past · passive |  | the Legend Long |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **picture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the Water Spirits | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bedim** | present · perfect | the storms of many winters | the pictured story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **picture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **read** | can | none | the legend but the Jossakeeds and the prophets |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Topic |
| 9 | **storm** |  | many winters |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/68/)
- next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/70/)
- ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/)