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title: From old Péboân's eyes the teardrops Down his pale face ran in strea… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From old Péboân's eyes the teardrops Down his pale face ran in streamlets; Less and less he grew in stature Till he melted doun to nothing; And behold, from out the ashes, From the ashes of his lodge-fire, Sprang the Miscodeed [1023] and, blushing, Welcomed Según to the North-land. Who acts: eyes, P
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 103

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From old Péboân's eyes the teardrops Down his pale face ran in streamlets; Less and less he grew in stature Till he melted doun to nothing; And behold, from out the ashes, From the ashes of his lodge-fire, Sprang the Miscodeed \[1023\] and, blushing, Welcomed Según to the North-land.

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**Who acts:** eyes, Péboân · **What happens:** run, grow, melt, blush, fire · **To what, where:** Less, streamlets, stature, doun

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Péboân), 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:pg8122:18:103
# text = From old Péboân's eyes the teardrops Down his pale face ran in streamlets; Less and less he grew in stature Till he melted doun to nothing; And behold, from out the ashes, From the ashes of his lodge-fire, Sprang the Miscodeed [1023] and, blushing, Welcomed Según to the North-land.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Péboân	Péboân	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	teardrops	teardrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	Down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	streamlets	streamlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	melted	melt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	doun	doun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
30	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	From	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	appos	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
43	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	Sprang	Sprang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Miscodeed	Miscodeed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	_
50	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	1023	1023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	47	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	51	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	blushing	blush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	Welcomed	Welcomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	Según	Según	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
59	to	to	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
61	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | old Péboân's eyes and the teardrops | Less |  | streamlets |  | from the ashes; to the North land; Péboân's pale face *nsubj*; Sprang and Welcomed Según *parataxis* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in streamlet=Trajectory from ash=Initial\_Location to land=Destination |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Péboân |  |  | stature |  | less *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stature=Location |
| 3 | **melt** | past | Péboân | doun |  |  |  | to nothing | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient doun=Result |
| 4 | **blush** | gerund | old Péboân's eyes and the teardrops *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fire** |  | Péboân |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event 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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