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title: Then roared in the groves,--on the plains, --on the ice-covered lake… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then roared in the groves,--on the plains, --on the ice-covered lakes and the river-- The blasts of the fierce hurricanes blown abroad from the breast of Wazíya. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 44

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Then roared in the groves,--on the plains, --on the ice-covered lakes and the river-- The blasts of the fierce hurricanes blown abroad from the breast of Wazíya.

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**What happens:** roar, cover, blow, blast · **To what, where:** groves, fierce hurricanes

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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: 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:pg8122:10:44
# text = Then roared in the groves,--on the plains, --on the ice-covered lakes and the river-- The blasts of the fierce hurricanes blown abroad from the breast of Wazíya.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	groves	grove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	blasts	blast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Wazíya	Wazíya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | past |  |  |  | the groves | then | on the plains on the covered lakes and the river and the blasts of the fierce hurricanes | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grove=Location |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | ice *compound* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **blow** | participle |  | the fierce hurricanes *not said here* |  |  |  | from the breast of Wazíya; abroad *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from breast=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **blast** |  |  | the fierce hurricanes |  |  |  |  | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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