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title: I hear the sob on Spirit Knob [a] of Indian mother o'er her child; A… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: I hear the sob on Spirit Knob [a] of Indian mother o'er her child; And on the midnight waters throb her low _yun-he-he's_ [b] weird and wild. Who acts: I, midnight waters. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 101

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I hear the sob on Spirit Knob \[a\] of Indian mother o'er her child; And on the midnight waters throb her low \_yun-he-he's\_ \[b\] weird and wild.

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**Who acts:** I, midnight waters · **What happens:** hear, throb · **To what, where:** sob, Spirit Knob, low yun

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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, midnight waters), 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:pg8122:19:101
# text = I hear the sob on Spirit Knob [a] of Indian mother o'er her child; And on the midnight waters throb her low _yun-he-he's_ [b] weird and wild.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sob	sob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Knob	Knob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	throb	throb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	yun	yun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	_
34	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	b	b	NUM	LS	_	37	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | I | the sob |  | Spirit Knob |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sob=Stimulus |
| 2 | **throb** | present | the midnight waters | mother's low yun |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yun=Theme |

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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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