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title: [71] The band lay at rest in the tees at Ka-thá-ga, And abroad o'er… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [71] The band lay at rest in the tees at Ka-thá-ga, And abroad o'er the beautiful land walked the spirits of Peace and of Plenty-- Twin sisters, with bountiful hand, wide scatt'ring wild rice and the lilies. Who acts: 71, beautiful land. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gor
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 60

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\[71\] The band lay at rest in the tees at Ka-thá-ga, And abroad o'er the beautiful land walked the spirits of Peace and of Plenty-- Twin sisters, with bountiful hand, wide scatt'ring wild rice and the lilies.

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**Who acts:** 71, beautiful land · **What happens:** lay, walk, scatt'r · **To what, where:** rest, spirits, wild rice

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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 (71, beautiful land), 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:pg8122:10:60
# text = [71] The band lay at rest in the tees at Ka-thá-ga, And abroad o'er the beautiful land walked the spirits of Peace and of Plenty-- Twin sisters, with bountiful hand, wide scatt'ring wild rice and the lilies.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tees	tee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	thá	thá	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	ga	ga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	o'er	o'er	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Peace	Peace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Plenty	Plenty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	Twin	Twin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	bountiful	bountiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
42	scatt'ring	scatt'r	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
43	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | 71 |  |  | rest |  | in the tees at Ka thá ga; the band *nsubj* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at rest=Destination |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the beautiful land | the spirits of Peace and Plenty and Twin sisters |  |  |  | with bountiful hand; abroad *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spirit=Trajectory |
| 3 | **scatt'r** | gerund | the beautiful land *not said here* | wild rice and the lilies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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