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title: High at midnight I beheld her-- Like a flying star beheld her-- To t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: High at midnight I beheld her-- Like a flying star beheld her-- To the waves of Gitchee Gumee, Downward flashing through the ether. Who acts: High midnight. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 22

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High at midnight I beheld her-- Like a flying star beheld her-- To the waves of Gitchee Gumee, Downward flashing through the ether.

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**Who acts:** High midnight · **What happens:** behold, fly, flash, wave · **To what, where:** Raven, ether, Gitchee

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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 (High midnight), 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:pg8122:19:22
# text = High at midnight I beheld her-- Like a flying star beheld her-- To the waves of Gitchee Gumee, Downward flashing through the ether.
1	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	To	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Downward	downward	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ether	ether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | past | High midnight | Raven |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **behold** | past | High midnight *not said here* | Raven |  |  |  | like a flying star; to the waves of Gitchee | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 4 | **flash** | gerund | High midnight *not said here* |  |  | the ether |  | downward *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through ether=Location |
| 5 | **wave** |  |  | Gitchee |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event 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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