---
title: Long have I watched till my heart is cold; In my breast it is heavy… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Long have I watched till my heart is cold; In my breast it is heavy and cold as stone. Who acts: Long, I, heart. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/15/4/)

<!-- 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/) / [The Feast of the Virgins., part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/15/) / 4

# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 4

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Long have I watched till my heart is cold; In my breast it is heavy and cold as stone.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Long, I, heart · **What happens:** have, watch, be · **To what, where:** breast

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Long, I, heart), 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:pg8122:15:4
# text = Long have I watched till my heart is cold; In my breast it is heavy and cold as stone.
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	In	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Long |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | my heart |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | heart |  |  | my breast |  | as stone; heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/15/3/)
- next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/15/5/)
- ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/15/)