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title: [1019] Like the rising sun his face was, Like the shining stars his… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [1019] Like the rising sun his face was, Like the shining stars his eyes were, Light his footsteps as the Morning's. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 82

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\[1019\] Like the rising sun his face was, Like the shining stars his eyes were, Light his footsteps as the Morning's.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** rise, shine, be · **To what, where:** Light, Light footsteps

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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), 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:pg8122:18:82
# text = [1019] Like the rising sun his face was, Like the shining stars his eyes were, Light his footsteps as the Morning's.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1019	1019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	amod	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Light	Light	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Morning	Morning	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Came's eyes | Light |  |  |  | like the shining stars | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | Came's Light footsteps |  |  | as the Morning | 1019 like the rising sun and Came's face *obl*; Came *nmod:poss* | 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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