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title: Mihihna, Mihihna, the boy I bore-- When the robin sang and my brave… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Mihihna, Mihihna, the boy I bore-- When the robin sang and my brave was true, I can bear to look on his face no more. Who acts: I, Mihihna, brave. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 36

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Mihihna, Mihihna, the boy I bore-- When the robin sang and my brave was true, I can bear to look on his face no more.

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**Who acts:** I, Mihihna, brave · **What happens:** bear, sing, be, look · **To what, where:** boy

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Mihihna, brave), 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:pg8122:17:36
# text = Mihihna, Mihihna, the boy I bore-- When the robin sang and my brave was true, I can bear to look on his face no more.
1	Mihihna	Mihihna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Mihihna	Mihihna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	no	no	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past | I | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Mihihna |  |  |  |  | the robin *nsubj* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | my brave |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bear** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on robin's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on face=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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