Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 39

Mihihna, 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, death song, 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, death song, 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	13 gone	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Mihihna	punct
3	Mihihna	Mihihna	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mihihna	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stone	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heart	nmod:poss
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stone	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stone	cop
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mihihna	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mihihna	punct
10	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 light	det
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	cop
13	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 eyes	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
16	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eyes	compound
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gone	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 loon	punct
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 loon	det
20	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 loon	amod
21	loon	loon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 lake	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lake	det
24	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 loon	nmod
25	alone	alone	ADV	_	21 loon	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sings	punct
27	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 song	nmod:poss
28	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 song	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 death	punct
30	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sings	nsubj
31	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 moon	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 moon	det
34	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sings	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 dies	cc
36	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sings	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 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			my longing eyes	the light nsubj; the wounded loon in the lake conj; gone property	tree rules
3	sing speech: express	present	loon's death song		the moon			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to moon=Recipient
4	die	present	loon's death song 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 39

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 39