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title: On the Spirit-Island [a] sitting under midnight's misty moon, Lo I s… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: On the Spirit-Island [a] sitting under midnight's misty moon, Lo I see the spirits flitting o'er the waters one by one! Who acts: I, spirits. 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 clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend of the Falls., sentence 7

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On the Spirit-Island \[a\] sitting under midnight's misty moon, Lo I see the spirits flitting o'er the waters one by one!

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**Who acts:** I, spirits · **What happens:** sit, see, flit · **To what, where:** misty moon, spirits, one, Spirit Island

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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 (I, spirits), 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:pg8122:16:7
# text = On the Spirit-Island [a] sitting under midnight's misty moon, Lo I see the spirits flitting o'er the waters one by one!
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	flitting	flit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  | midnight's misty moon |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under moon=Location |
| 2 | **see** | present | I | the spirits |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus |
| 3 | **flit** | gerund | the spirits *not said here* | one by one |  |  |  | o'er the waters | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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