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title: Now swift from the lake they return, o'er the emerald hills and the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Now swift from the lake they return, o'er the emerald hills and the heather; Like grey-hounds they pant and they yearn, and the leader of all is Tamdóka. Who acts: you, runners, leader. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dep
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 25

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Now swift from the lake they return, o'er the emerald hills and the heather; Like grey-hounds they pant and they yearn, and the leader of all is Tamdóka.

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**Who acts:** you, runners, leader · **What happens:** swift, return, pant, yearn, be · **To what, where:** lake, grey hounds, Tamdóka

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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 (you, runners, leader), 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:pg8122:11:25
# text = Now swift from the lake they return, o'er the emerald hills and the heather; Like grey-hounds they pant and they yearn, and the leader of all is Tamdóka.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	swift	swift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heather	heather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pant	pant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	yearn	yearn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nmod	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	Tamdóka	Tamdóka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | **swift** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the lake | now | o'er the emerald hills and the heather; like grey hounds | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | present | runners *= runner* | the lake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Theme |
| 3 | **pant** | present | runners *= runner* | grey hounds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hound=Topic |
| 4 | **yearn** | present | runners *= runner* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the leader of all | Tamdóka |  |  |  |  | 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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