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title: The twinkling light on cape and height; the hum of voices on the sho… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The twinkling light on cape and height; the hum of voices on the shores; The merry laughter on the night; the dip and plash of frolic oars,-- These tell the tale. Who acts: These, voices. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 87

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The twinkling light on cape and height; the hum of voices on the shores; The merry laughter on the night; the dip and plash of frolic oars,-- These tell the tale.

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**Who acts:** These, voices · **What happens:** twinkle, tell, hum · **To what, where:** tale, twinkling light · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (These, voices), 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:pg8122:19:87
# text = The twinkling light on cape and height; the hum of voices on the shores; The merry laughter on the night; the dip and plash of frolic oars,-- These tell the tale.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	twinkling	twinkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hum	hum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dip	dip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	plash	plash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	frolic	frolic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
34	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twinkle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | These | the tale |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 4 | **hum** |  | voices on the shores |  |  |  |  |  | nom hum «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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