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title: The rising moon, the woods aboon, looks laughing down on lake and le… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The rising moon, the woods aboon, looks laughing down on lake and lea; Weird o'er the waters shrills the loon; the high stars twinkle in the sea. Who acts: rising moon, high stars. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its depende
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 85

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The rising moon, the woods aboon, looks laughing down on lake and lea; Weird o'er the waters shrills the loon; the high stars twinkle in the sea.

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**Who acts:** rising moon, high stars · **What happens:** rise, look, laugh down, shrill, twinkle · **To what, where:** lake, loon, sea

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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 (rising moon, high stars), 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:pg8122:19:85
# text = The rising moon, the woods aboon, looks laughing down on lake and lea; Weird o'er the waters shrills the loon; the high stars twinkle in the sea.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	amod	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	aboon	aboon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	lea	lea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	Weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
18	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	shrills	shrill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	loon	loon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	twinkle	twinkle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | present | the rising moon |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh down** | gerund | the rising moon *not said here* |  |  | lake and lea |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shrill** | present | the rising moon *not said here* | the loon |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location loon=Theme |
| 5 | **twinkle** | present | the high stars |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |

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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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