Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 101

I hear the sob on Spirit Knob [a] of Indian mother o'er her child; And on the midnight waters throb her low _yun-he-he's_ [b] weird and wild.

Who acts: I, midnight waters · What happens: hear, throb · To what, where: sob, Spirit Knob, low yun

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 (I, midnight waters), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sob	det
4	sob	sob	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 Knob	case
6	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Knob	compound
7	Knob	Knob	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sob	nmod
8	[	[	PUNCT	_	13 mother	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mother	det
10	]	]	PUNCT	_	13 mother	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 mother	case
12	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mother	amod
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Knob	appos
14	o'er	o'er	ADP	_	16 child	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 child	nmod:poss
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mother	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 throb	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 throb	cc
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 waters	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 waters	det
21	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 waters	compound
22	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 throb	nsubj
23	throb	throb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hear	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 yun	nmod:poss
25	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 yun	amod
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 low	punct
27	yun	yun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 throb	obj
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 he	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 yun	flat
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 weird	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 _	nsubj
32	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 _	cop
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 b	punct
34	[	[	PUNCT	_	35 b	punct
35	b	b	NUM	_	37 weird	discourse
36	]	]	PUNCT	_	35 b	punct
37	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hear	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 wild	cc
39	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 weird	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	I	the sob		Spirit Knob			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sob=Stimulus
2	throb	present	the midnight waters	mother's low yun					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yun=Theme

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, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 101

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 101