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title: Hark!--she chants the solemn story,--sings the legend sad and old, A… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Hark!--she chants the solemn story,--sings the legend sad and old, And the river wrapt in glory listens while the tale is told. Who acts: Hark, river. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend of the Falls., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 22

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Hark!--she chants the solemn story,--sings the legend sad and old, And the river wrapt in glory listens while the tale is told.

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**Who acts:** Hark, river · **What happens:** chant, sing, wrapt, listen, tell · **To what, where:** solemn story, legend, glory, tale · **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, river), 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:pg8122:16:22
# text = Hark!--she chants the solemn story,--sings the legend sad and old, And the river wrapt in glory listens while the tale is told.
1	Hark	Hark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chants	chant	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wrapt	wrapt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	listens	listen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chant** | present | Hark | the solemn story |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Hark *not said here* | the legend |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location legend=Theme |
| 3 | **wrapt** | present | the river |  |  | glory |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **listen** | present | Hark *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the tale |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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