Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 31

Mihihna, [d] Mihihna, my heart is stone; The light is gone from my longing eyes; The wounded loon in the lake alone Her death-song sings to the moon and dies.

Who acts: heart, Mihihna, wounded loon, loon · What happens: be, sing, die · To what, where: stone, longing eyes, moon

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, Mihihna, wounded loon, loon), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mihihna	Mihihna	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 gone	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mihihna	punct
3	[	[	PUNCT	_	4 d	punct
4	d	D	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mihihna	appos
5	]	]	PUNCT	_	4 d	punct
6	Mihihna	Mihihna	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mihihna	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stone	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heart	nmod:poss
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stone	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stone	cop
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mihihna	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
13	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 light	det
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	cop
16	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 eyes	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
19	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eyes	compound
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gone	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 sings	punct
22	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 loon	det
23	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 loon	amod
24	loon	loon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sings	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 lake	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lake	det
27	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 loon	nmod
28	alone	alone	ADV	_	27 lake	advmod
29	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 song	nmod:poss
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 song	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 death	punct
32	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sings	nsubj
33	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 moon	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 moon	det
36	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sings	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 dies	cc
38	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 sings	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	my heart	stone				tree rules
2	is	present	Mihihna and stone			my longing eyes	the light nsubj; gone property	tree rules
3	sing speech: express	present	the wounded loon in the lake		the moon		loon's death song nsubj	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to moon=Recipient
4	die	present	the wounded loon in the lake not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	sing		loon					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 31