--- title: But hark!--on the river a song, --strange voices commingled in choru… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: But hark!--on the river a song, --strange voices commingled in chorus; On the current a boat swept along with DuLuth and his hardy companions; To the stroke of their paddles they sung, and this the refrain that they chanted: Who acts: boat, songs. 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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 (boat, songs), 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:pg8122:10:66 # text = But hark!--on the river a song, --strange voices commingled in chorus; On the current a boat swept along with DuLuth and his hardy companions; To the stroke of their paddles they sung, and this the refrain that they chanted: 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 hark hark NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 -- -- PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 14 commingled commingle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 chorus chorus NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 On on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 swept sweep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 along along ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 DuLuth DuLuth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 hardy hardy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 To to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 paddles paddle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 sung sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 det _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 refrain refrain NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 45 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 46 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 chanted chant VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **commingle** | participle | | strange voices *not said here* | | chorus | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **sweep along** | past | a boat | the current *not said here* | | | | with DuLuth and Island's hardy companions; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location current=Theme | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | songs *= song* | songs's paddles *not said here* | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paddle=Theme | | 4 | **chant** | past | songs *= song* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stroke** | | | songs's paddles | | | | | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/67/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/10/)