--- title: One long moon the Sea-Gull waited, Watched and waited for her husban… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: One long moon the Sea-Gull waited, Watched and waited for her husband, Till at last she heard his footsteps, Heard him coming through the thicket. Who acts: One long moon, Till, Gull. 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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 (One long moon, Till, Gull), 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:pg8122:18:47 # text = One long moon the Sea-Gull waited, Watched and waited for her husband, Till at last she heard his footsteps, Heard him coming through the thicket. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Gull Gull PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Till Till PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nmod _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 footsteps footstep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 xcomp _ _ 28 through through ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 thicket thicket NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | past | One long moon | | | | | the Sea Gull *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **watch** | past | One long moon *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** | past | One long moon *not said here* | | | | | for moon's husband | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hear** | past | Till at last | Gull's footsteps | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footstep=Stimulus | | 5 | **hear** | past | Till at last *not said here* | Gull | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | gerund | Gull *not said here* | | | the thicket | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through thicket=Initial\_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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/48/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/)