--- title: Once--her dark eyes full of hunger-- Thus she spoke and thus besough… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Once--her dark eyes full of hunger-- Thus she spoke and thus besought him: "Tell me, O my silent Panther, Tell me, O beloved husband, What has made you sad and sullen? Who acts: Fire. 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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 (Fire), 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:pg8122:18:31 # text = Once--her dark eyes full of hunger-- Thus she spoke and thus besought him: "Tell me, O my silent Panther, Tell me, O beloved husband, What has made you sad and sullen? 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 -- -- PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 Thus thus ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 thus thus ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 besought beseech VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 O of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 25 case _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Panther panther NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 O o INTJ UH _ 32 discourse _ _ 31 beloved beloved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 sullen sullen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Fire | | | | | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **beseech** | past | Fire *not said here* | panther | | | | thus *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | Fire | | | of my silent Panther | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | beloved husband | Fire | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | beloved husband | | | | you *obj*; sad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary you=Product | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/32/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/)