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title: O sweet is the carol of bird, And sweet is the murmur of streams, Bu… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: O sweet is the carol of bird, And sweet is the murmur of streams, But sweeter the voice that I heard-- In the night--in the midst of my dreams. Who acts: sweet, voice, I, my. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, with its dependency tre
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6, sentence 48

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O sweet is the carol of bird, And sweet is the murmur of streams, But sweeter the voice that I heard-- In the night--in the midst of my dreams.

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**Who acts:** sweet, voice, I, my · **What happens:** be, hear, dream · **To what, where:** carol, murmur, voice

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet, voice, I, my), 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:pg8122:13:48
# text = O sweet is the carol of bird, And sweet is the murmur of streams, But sweeter the voice that I heard-- In the night--in the midst of my dreams.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	carol	carol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	sweet	sweet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	In	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | sweet | the carol |  |  |  | of bird | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | sweet | the murmur |  |  |  | of streams | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the voice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | past | I | the voice |  |  | night | the midst of my dreams *conj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 5 | **dream** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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