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title: My Father's Spirit, look down, look down-- From your hunting-grounds… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: My Father's Spirit, look down, look down-- From your hunting-grounds in the shining skies; Behold, for the light of my soul is gone,-- The light is gone and Winona dies. Who acts: you, light, Winona. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 1

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My Father's Spirit, look down, look down-- From your hunting-grounds in the shining skies; Behold, for the light of my soul is gone,-- The light is gone and Winona dies.

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**Who acts:** you, light, Winona · **What happens:** look down, shine, be, die, light · **To what, where:** soul

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, light, Winona), 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:pg8122:15:1
# text = My Father's Spirit, look down, look down-- From your hunting-grounds in the shining skies; Behold, for the light of my soul is gone,-- The light is gone and Winona dies.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	From	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	parataxis	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **look down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | My Father *vocative* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look down** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from your hunting grounds in the shining skies; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from grounds=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the light of my soul |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the light |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **die** | present | Winona |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **light** |  |  | my soul |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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