--- title: Swing, swing little one, lullaby; Thou'rt not left alone to weep; Mo… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Swing, swing little one, lullaby; Thou'rt not left alone to weep; Mother cares for you,--she is nigh; Sleep, my little one, sweetly sleep; Swing, swing, little one, lullaby; Mother watches you--she is nigh; Gently, gently, wee one swing; Gently, gently, while I sing Who acts: Swing, Thou'rt, Mother, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/) / 23 # Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 23 Swing, swing little one, lullaby; Thou'rt not left alone to weep; Mother cares for you,--she is nigh; Sleep, my little one, sweetly sleep; Swing, swing, little one, lullaby; Mother watches you--she is nigh; Gently, gently, wee one swing; Gently, gently, while I sing **Who acts:** Swing, Thou'rt, Mother, I · **What happens:** swing, not leave, weep, care, be, watch · **To what, where:** little one, you, one swing 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 (Swing, Thou'rt, Mother, I), 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:pg8122:18:23 # text = Swing, swing little one, lullaby; Thou'rt not left alone to weep; Mother cares for you,--she is nigh; Sleep, my little one, sweetly sleep; Swing, swing, little one, lullaby; Mother watches you--she is nigh; Gently, gently, wee one swing; Gently, gently, while I sing 1 Swing swing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 swing swing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 lullaby lullaby NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 Thou'rt Thou'rt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 12 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 weep weep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 cares care VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 nigh nigh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 sweetly sweetly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Swing swing NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 swing swing NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 lullaby lullaby NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 44 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 -- -- PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 49 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 50 nigh nigh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 52 Gently gently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 gently gently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 56 wee wee VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 57 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 58 nummod _ _ 58 swing swing NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 60 Gently gently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 62 gently gently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 64 while while SCONJ IN _ 66 mark _ _ 65 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 66 nsubj _ _ 66 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swing** | infinitive | Swing | little one and lullaby | | | | Sleep and my little one and sweetly sleep and Swing and swing and little one and lullaby *parataxis*; gently *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme one=Result | | 2 | **not** **leave** | participle | Thou'rt | | | | | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **weep** | to-infinitive | Thou'rt *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **care** | present | Mother | | | | | for you | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for you=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | mother | | | | | nigh *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **watch** | present | Mother | you | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 7 | **is** | present | mother | | | | | nigh *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **wee** | infinitive | | one swing | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | I | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/24/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/)