--- title: Then he raged beneath the waters, Raged and smote the mighty waters,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Then he raged beneath the waters, Raged and smote the mighty waters, Till the big sea boiled and bubbled, Till the white-haired, bounding billows Roared around the rocky head-lands, Roared and plashed upon the shingle. Who acts: Sprang. 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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 (Sprang), 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:pg8122:19:54 # text = Then he raged beneath the waters, Raged and smote the mighty waters, Till the big sea boiled and bubbled, Till the white-haired, bounding billows Roared around the rocky head-lands, Roared and plashed upon the shingle. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 raged rage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Raged rage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 smote smote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 Till till ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 19 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 bubbled bubble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 Till till SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 haired haired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 bounding bound VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 30 billows billow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 Roared roar VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 around around ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 34 rocky rocky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 35 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 Roared roar VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 plashed plash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 conj _ _ 42 upon upon ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 shingle shingle NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rage** | past | Sprang | | | the waters | then | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath water=Location | | 2 | **rage** | participle | Sprang *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **smote** | infinitive | Sprang *not said here* | the mighty waters | | | | the big sea *conj* | tree rules | | 4 | **boil** | participle | | the big sea *not said here* | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **bubble** | participle | | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 6 | **bound** | gerund | | billows | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location billow=Theme | | 7 | **roar** | participle | | billows *not said here* | | the rocky head lands | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around land=Location | | 8 | **roar** | participle | | the rocky head lands *not said here* | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **plash** | participle | | | | the shingle | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shingle=Location | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/55/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/)