--- title: Swift and silent in the gloaming on the waste of waters blue, Speedi… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Swift and silent in the gloaming on the waste of waters blue, Speeding downward to the foaming, shot Wanâta's birch canoe, In it stood Anpétu-sâpa--in her arms her sleeping child; Like a wailing Norse-land _drapa_ [c] rose her death-song weird and wild: Who acts: fat, c, Sâpa. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fat, c, Sâpa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:17:30 # text = Swift and silent in the gloaming on the waste of waters blue, Speeding downward to the foaming, shot Wanâta's birch canoe, In it stood Anpétu-sâpa--in her arms her sleeping child; Like a wailing Norse-land _drapa_ [c] rose her death-song weird and wild: 1 Swift swift NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 gloaming gloaming NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Speeding speed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 15 downward downward ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 foaming foaming NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 20 shot shoot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 Wanâta Wanâta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 birch birch NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 canoe canoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 In in SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 Anpétu Anpétu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 sâpa sâpa NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 sleeping sleeping ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 40 Like like ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 42 wailing wail VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 amod _ _ 43 Norse norse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 46 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 drapa drapa NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 48 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 52 punct _ _ 49 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 c c NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 50 punct _ _ 52 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 53 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 54 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 55 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 57 weird weird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 conj _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 59 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speed** | gerund | | | | the foaming | | downward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foaming=Destination | | 2 | **shoot** | past | | Wanâta's birch canoe | | | | Swift *compound* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme | | 3 | **stand** | past | fat | Anpétu sâpa | | | | like a wailing Norse land; Sâpa's sleeping child in Sâpa's arms *obl*; drapa *parataxis* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sâpa=Stimulus | | 4 | **wail** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **rise** | past | c | Sâpa's death song | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 6 | **sing** | | Sâpa | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/17/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/17/31/) - ↑ back to [The Legend.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/17/)