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title: Has he put a spell upon you-- Filled your heart with bitter waters,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Has he put a spell upon you-- Filled your heart with bitter waters, That you sit so sad and sullen, Sit and smoke, but never answer, Only when the storm is on you?" Who acts: goblin, That, storm. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, w
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 33

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Has he put a spell upon you-- Filled your heart with bitter waters, That you sit so sad and sullen, Sit and smoke, but never answer, Only when the storm is on you?"

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**Who acts:** goblin, That, storm · **What happens:** put, fill, sit, not answer, be · **To what, where:** spell, heart, Sit

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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 (goblin, That, storm), 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:pg8122:18:33
# text = Has he put a spell upon you-- Filled your heart with bitter waters, That you sit so sad and sullen, Sit and smoke, but never answer, Only when the storm is on you?"
1	Has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sullen	sullen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Sit	Sit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
33	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	38	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present | goblin | a spell |  |  |  | upon you | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme upon you=Destination |
| 2 | **fill** | participle | goblin *not said here* | your heart |  |  |  | with bitter waters | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heart=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 3 | **sit** | present | That | Sit and smoke |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | the storm |  |  |  |  | on you | tree rules |

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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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