--- title: Then all sat still again Till evening, when they saw The Northern Li… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics description: Then all sat still again Till evening, when they saw The Northern Light return Completely, sadly tired; He quivered and he shook As beaten by fatigue, Yet for all that the Light Had not been through the world, For, coming to the south, The heat had sent him home. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lights, Northern Light, Nor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78673:6:14 # text = Then all sat still again Till evening, when they saw The Northern Light return Completely, sadly tired; He quivered and he shook As beaten by fatigue, Yet for all that the Light Had not been through the world, For, coming to the south, The heat had sent him home. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 3 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 still still ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 Till till ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Northern Northern ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Light Light PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 return return VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 16 Completely completely ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 sadly sadly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 quivered quiver VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 26 As as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 xcomp _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 fatigue fatigue NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 31 Yet yet CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 46 obl _ _ 34 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 obj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 Light Light PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Had Had PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 39 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 cop _ _ 40 through through ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 44 For for ADP IN _ 33 case _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 46 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj:pass _ _ 53 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 54 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 55 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 obj _ _ 56 home home ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | | | | | then; again; still; evening | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | past | Lights *= light* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **return** | present | the Northern Light | | | | | completely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **quiver** | past | Nor | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **shake** | past | Nor | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **beat** | participle | Nor *not said here* | | | | | by fatigue | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fatigue=Location | | 7 | **not** **is** | participle | | | | the world | | | tree rules | | 8 | **come** | gerund | | | | the south | | for all that the Light Had | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to south=Initial\_Location | | 9 | **send** | past · perfect · passive | | the heat | | | | Nor *obj*; home *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme | 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. **Text:** «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/6/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/6/15/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/6/)