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title: Till the red Harvest Moon [71] he remained in the vale of the swift… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Till the red Harvest Moon [71] he remained in the vale of the swift Mississippi. Who acts: he. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 1

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Till the red Harvest Moon \[71\] he remained in the vale of the swift Mississippi.

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**Who acts:** he · **What happens:** remain · **To what, where:** vale

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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:pg8122:11:1
# text = Till the red Harvest Moon [71] he remained in the vale of the swift Mississippi.
1	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Harvest	Harvest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | he |  |  | the vale of the swift Mississippi | till the red Harvest Moon |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vale=Location |

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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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