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title: [1020]--see!--I shake my ringlets; On the earth the warm rain fallet… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [1020]--see!--I shake my ringlets; On the earth the warm rain falleth, And the flowers look up like children Glad-eyed from their mother's bosom. Who acts: I, warm rain, flowers, mother. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, with its d
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1, sentence 95

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\[1020\]--see!--I shake my ringlets; On the earth the warm rain falleth, And the flowers look up like children Glad-eyed from their mother's bosom.

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**Who acts:** I, warm rain, flowers, mother · **What happens:** see, shake, fall, look up, eye, bosom · **To what, where:** 1020, earth, children, bosom

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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 (I, warm rain, flowers, mother), 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:pg8122:18:95
# text = [1020]--see!--I shake my ringlets; On the earth the warm rain falleth, And the flowers look up like children Glad-eyed from their mother's bosom.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1020	1020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shake	shake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ringlets	ringlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	On	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	falleth	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	Glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	eyed	eye	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **shake** | present | I | 1020 |  |  |  | my ringlets *obj* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ringlet=Patient |
| 3 | **fall** | present | the warm rain |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |
| 4 | **look up** | present | the flowers |  |  |  |  | like children | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **eye** | participle |  | children *not said here* |  | flowers's mother's bosom |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **bosom** |  | flowers's mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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