--- title: Blind with love were they, and saw not; Deaf to all but love, and he… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Blind with love were they, and saw not; Deaf to all but love, and heard not; So they cooed and wooed unheeding, Till the gray hawk pounced upon them, And the old crow shook with laughter. Who acts: you, lovers, old crow. 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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 (you, lovers, old crow), 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:pg8122:19:4 # text = Blind with love were they, and saw not; Deaf to all but love, and heard not; So they cooed and wooed unheeding, Till the gray hawk pounced upon them, And the old crow shook with laughter. 1 Blind blind VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Deaf deaf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 obl _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 So so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 cooed coo VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 wooed woo VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 unheeding unheeding NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 Till till ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 gray gray ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 hawk hawk NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 pounced pounce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 upon upon ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 And and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blind** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | with love | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | | lovers *= lover* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **see** | past | | | | | | deaf *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **not** **hear** | past | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **coo** | past | lovers *= lover* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **woo** | past | lovers *= lover* *not said here* | unheeding | | | till the gray hawk | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unheeding=Patient | | 7 | **pounce** | participle | | the gray hawk *not said here* | | | | upon lovers *= lover* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Trajectory | | 8 | **shake** | past | the old crow | | | | | with laughter | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with laughter=Co-Patient | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/5/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/)