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title: For oft at night I see the light of lodge-fires on the shadowy shore… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: For oft at night I see the light of lodge-fires on the shadowy shores, And hear the wail some maiden's sprite above her slaughtered warrior pours. Who acts: I, sprite. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree and 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 100

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For oft at night I see the light of lodge-fires on the shadowy shores, And hear the wail some maiden's sprite above her slaughtered warrior pours.

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**Who acts:** I, sprite · **What happens:** see, hear, slaughter, light · **To what, where:** light, wail, warrior pours, lodge fires

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sprite), 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:pg8122:19:100
# text = For oft at night I see the light of lodge-fires on the shadowy shores, And hear the wail some maiden's sprite above her slaughtered warrior pours.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
23	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	sprite	sprite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	above	above	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
29	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	pours	pour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | I | the light of lodge fires on the shadowy shores |  |  | night | for oft | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the wail |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wail=Stimulus |
| 3 | **slaughter** | past | maiden's sprite above shore | warrior pours |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pour=Patient |
| 4 | **light** |  |  | lodge fires on the shadowy shores |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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