--- title: Then old Péboân looked upon him, Looked and knew Según, the Summer,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Then old Péboân looked upon him, Looked and knew Según, the Summer, From his eyes the big tears started And his boastful tongue was silent. Who acts: old Péboân, big tears, boastful tongue. 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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 (old Péboân, big tears, boastful tongue), 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:pg8122:18:98 # text = Then old Péboân looked upon him, Looked and knew Según, the Summer, From his eyes the big tears started And his boastful tongue was silent. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Péboân Péboân PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 upon upon ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 Según Según PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Summer Summer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 From from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 23 And and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 boastful boastful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | old Péboân | | | | then | upon bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme | | 2 | **look** | past | old Péboân *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **know** | past | old Péboân *not said here* | Según the Summer | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer según=Stimulus | | 4 | **start** | past | the big tears | | | Péboân's eyes | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | past | Péboân's boastful tongue | | | | | silent *property* | tree rules | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/99/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/18/)