--- title: She hid like a grouse in the meadow-grass, And moaned--"I am lost!--… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: She hid like a grouse in the meadow-grass, And moaned--"I am lost!--I am lost! alas; And why did I fly my native land To die by the cruel Ojibway's hand?" Who acts: band. 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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 (band), 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:pg8122:9:28 # text = She hid like a grouse in the meadow-grass, And moaned--"I am lost!--I am lost! alas; And why did I fly my native land To die by the cruel Ojibway's hand?" 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 grouse grouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 And and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 moaned moan VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 25 alas ala NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 And and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 29 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 To to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 Ojibway Ojibway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | past | band | | | the meadow grass | | like a grouse | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location | | 2 | **moan** | past | | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | present · passive | | band | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 4 | **lose** *in a quote* | present · passive | | band | | | | alas *obl* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **fly** *in a quote* | past · do-support | band | my native land | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=Theme | | 6 | **die** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | band *not said here* | | | | | by the cruel Ojibway's hand | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/29/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/9/)