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title: Hark!--the waters hush their sighing, and the whippowil her call, Th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Hark!--the waters hush their sighing, and the whippowil her call, Through the moon-lit mists are flying dusky shadows silent all. Who acts: Hark, whippowil, lit mists. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls., with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 18

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Hark!--the waters hush their sighing, and the whippowil her call, Through the moon-lit mists are flying dusky shadows silent all.

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**Who acts:** Hark, whippowil, lit mists · **What happens:** hush, call, lit, fly · **To what, where:** sighing, dusky shadows · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hark, whippowil, lit mists), 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:pg8122:16:18
# text = Hark!--the waters hush their sighing, and the whippowil her call, Through the moon-lit mists are flying dusky shadows silent all.
1	Hark	Hark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hush	hush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sighing	sighing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	whippowil	whippowil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	Through	through	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	mists	mist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
24	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hush** | present | Hark | waters's sighing |  |  |  | the waters *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sighing=Patient |
| 2 | **call** |  | the whippowil |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | moon *compound* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly** | present · progressive | the lit mists | dusky shadows |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme all=Destination |

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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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