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title: Mihihna, Mihihna, the Scarlet Leaf Has robbed my boy of his father's… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Mihihna, Mihihna, the Scarlet Leaf Has robbed my boy of his father's love; He sleeps in my arms--he will find no grief In the star-lit lodge in the land above. Who acts: boy, father. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 38

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Mihihna, Mihihna, the Scarlet Leaf Has robbed my boy of his father's love; He sleeps in my arms--he will find no grief In the star-lit lodge in the land above.

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**Who acts:** boy, father · **What happens:** rob, sleep, find, lit, love · **To what, where:** Mihihna, arms, grief, lit lodge

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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 (boy, father), 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:pg8122:17:38
# text = Mihihna, Mihihna, the Scarlet Leaf Has robbed my boy of his father's love; He sleeps in my arms--he will find no grief In the star-lit lodge in the land above.
1	Mihihna	Mihihna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Mihihna	Mihihna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Scarlet	Scarlet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Leaf	Leaf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	Has	Have	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	aux	_	_
9	robbed	rob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	In	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	above	above	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rob** | perfect · passive |  | Mihihna |  |  |  | the Scarlet Leaf *nsubj:pass*; my boy of boy's father's love *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sleep** | present | boy |  |  | my arms |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in arm=Location |
| 3 | **find** | future | boy | no grief |  | the lit lodge in the land |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Topic |
| 4 | **lit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | star *compound* | tree rules |
| 5 | **love** |  | boy's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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