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title: From the red stake that stood by his tee, on the southerly side of t… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: From the red stake that stood by his tee, on the southerly side of the Ha-ha To a stake at the Lake of the Loons [79] --a league and return--was the distance. Who acts: red stake. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dependenc
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 9

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From the red stake that stood by his tee, on the southerly side of the Ha-ha To a stake at the Lake of the Loons \[79\] --a league and return--was the distance.

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**Who acts:** red stake · **What happens:** stand, be · **To what, where:** southerly side, distance, red stake

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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 (red stake), 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:pg8122:11:9
# text = From the red stake that stood by his tee, on the southerly side of the Ha-ha To a stake at the Lake of the Loons [79] --a league and return--was the distance.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stake	stake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tee	tee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	southerly	southerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Ha	Ha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ha	ha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	To	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stake	stake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Loons	loon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	79	79	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the red stake |  |  | the southerly side of the Ha ha |  | by Itancan's tee; to a stake; at the Lake of the Loons | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tee=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the distance |  | the red stake |  |  | 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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