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title: Half-dead in a dismal morass, as they followed the red-deer they fou… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Half-dead in a dismal morass, as they followed the red-deer they found him, In the midst of the mire and the grass, and mumbling "_Te Deum laudamus_." " Who acts: Dakotas. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, with its dependency tree a
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 12

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Half-dead in a dismal morass, as they followed the red-deer they found him, In the midst of the mire and the grass, and mumbling "\_Te Deum laudamus\_." "

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**Who acts:** Dakotas · **What happens:** follow, find, mumble · **To what, where:** red deer, midst, Half, Te laudamus

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dakotas), 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:pg8122:10:12
# text = Half-dead in a dismal morass, as they followed the red-deer they found him, In the midst of the mire and the grass, and mumbling "_Te Deum laudamus_." "
1	Half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	morass	morass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	In	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mire	mire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	mumbling	mumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	Deum	Deum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
36	laudamus	laudamus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Dakotas *= dakota* | the red deer |  | the midst of the mire and the grass |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent deer=Theme in midst=Trajectory |
| 2 | **find** | past | Dakotas *= dakota* | Half |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 3 | **mumble** *speech: other* | gerund |  | Te laudamus |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laudamus=Topic |

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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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